jimmybigtime

This is one of those movies that revolves/bases it's entire story around a single theme, which will never show a story based in reality, because everything that happens happens exactly how the theme wants it to happen. Basically every single white person is a lazy, whining racist or someone who absolutely hates those evil, racist people, while every single black person is a moral, hard working hero. Yes, these types of people did exist back then, but they weren't every single human that lived and showing caricatures like this in movies today are doing nothing to help race relations. This movie could have been so much better if it had shown real stories from real people from back then instead of just going for more race baiting, Oscar begging repetition. You wonder why there are race riots in 2017 when there weren't in 2010? Ask Hollywood and everyone else that can profit off of conflict.

I wen't into this doc without knowing anything about the people that filmed it, the people they observed, or any other information about what was covered other than the election. Now, there is no interaction with the observed people by the documentarians, which I respect, but it was pretty obvious there was a message being pushed, which is that there are much less Trump supporters than Clinton supporters and they don't have any real problems to deal with. The documentary follows somewhere between ten and fifteen Clinton supporters and three to five Trump supporters (I can't remember the exact numbers but that's close). Now, right off the bat, that is a flawed portrayal. The MSM will never admit it, but there are more Trump supporters than Clinton supporters when you subtract illegal immigrants (an estimated 2-5 million illegals voted in sanctuary city states like California and New York). Other than that, I didn't have a problem with it because there wasn't direct intervention by the filmmakers, which I can't stress enough as the best thing a documentarian can do.