“Michael Moore in TrumpLand” review: What MM Understands About Hillary Clinton

[Coyotl]

What Michael Moore Understands About Hillary Clinton
By Richard Brody , October 19, 2016

“Michael Moore in TrumpLand” isn’t quite the film that I expected it to be, and that’s all to the good. Moore is, of course, a genius of political satire, deploying his persona—as a populist socialist skeptic with a superb sense of humor and a chess player’s skill at media positioning—to deeply humane ends that are mainly detached from practicality, policy, and practical politics. The very idea of the new film—a recording of Moore’s one-man show from the stage of a theatre in a small, predominantly Republican town in Ohio—runs the risk of self-parody, being a feature-length lampooning of Trump, laid out with meticulously researched facts set forth with the sublime derision of which Moore is a master. It would have been a highly saleable version of preaching to the converted.

Instead, Moore—a well-known and outspoken supporter of Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary campaign—has done something different, better, and even majestic. .........

[NCTraveler]

1. Thanks for sharing this. nt.

[AmericanActivist]

2. I look forward to watching Michael Moore's new film. Thanks for the link. nm

[Lucinda]

3. KNR