Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem

I'm a Vancouverite and I wasn't Canadian when Rob Ford was mayor of Toronto. But i remember reading about it all on international media.

This documentary is engaging and keeps you glued with quick pivots. The biggest criticism i have is it was negative-heavy. Why weren't his policy decisions mentioned at all? Why not show his good work as legacy, and not just his public connect? Why was the documentary so 'sudden-event-based' and not informative? Is the underlying message that a person who consumes drugs is still worthless? Given the loose mention of smoking weed in the documentary, that's not true at all. The premise that a man's private life is made a spectacle by the media should be a negative on the media and not the man himself.

Funny how the media escapes criticism and pretends they're just messengers.

Legacy media is all the same, no matter the country. All over the world, if someone is upsetting the natural order, they must be destroyed at all costs.

There is a reason Gawker is now defunct- and while I wouldn't necessarily qualify them as legacy media, they are part of the larger issue. If you want to see where the rot is, pull back the layers to see what that will expose. As the saying goes, 'The best disinfectant is sunlight.' Rob Ford wasn't necessarily a beacon of goodness, but I wouldn't challenge anyone to find a single person who is above the slightest reproach- he had flaws but he got work done and his constituency adored him because he did the work everyone else made excuses for not doing.

This feels like they are still angry and bitter over his ability to finesse and avoid the nonsense, until it became so relentless there was no other choice. It's ironic that the media talking head makes the Trump comparison- because it was blatantly obvious, even back then. The media are who they are, and now more than ever they've finally been exposed to sunlight and very few even give them a sideways glance.

It couldn't happen to a better example of narcissistic, megalomaniac elites- they wrote their own downfall.

This Trainwreck documentary does a very wonderful job of showcasing the struggles that Robert Ford had to go through in order to confront the scandalous situations he found himself caught in.

But frankly, I feel like it should have taken more time to talk about his policies and his ACTUAL work as a politician since he is a politician at the end of the day. We only got to see a glimpse of that here.

Maybe another area the documentary could have tackled on was how these compromising videos were caught on camera in the first place. It happened too many times, there has got to be a reason of some sort, was it perhaps because he had bad friends or something like that? This movie certainly won't give you the answer.

Rob Ford is the unlikely winner of Toronto's mayoral election. It's a turbulent time; he hits the heights when a story about him smoking crack from a pipe makes the news.

It's a really interesting watch-a story that is so intriguing. Yes, it's shocking, but it's also pretty sad. He is a very flawed individual but definitely bubbling with personality and charisma.

Reading through Rob Ford's achievements, it seems as though he actually did some good things in Toronto. It's a shame that some of the positives aren't covered. You can see why people vote for individuals with personality and charisma; there's something refreshing in a way, but they are not always right for such high-powered jobs.

The media sometimes does its job very well, but so often, they fail. They really did go for their man here, and they got him. Rob seemed to be one of those people whom the public liked, but the media obviously didn't. It's a really sad end.

8/10.

I was no fan of Rob as our Mayor. It was a circus our city did not deserve. But watching this documentary allowed me to see the human side of him and the tragedy that it was. Many of us are like Rob. Survivors of childhood trauma. This is the example of what happens if you don't deal with it. I feel sad for him that he had to live it out so publicly. May he rest in peace. I heard Doug say he had no intentions of watching this, but I think he should. I think this was done very fairly and balanced. And may anybody who's walking in similar footsteps to Rob Ford find a pathway to healing and treatment they so deserve.