Michael Moore in Trumpland, and my opinion and feedback---please read if you are interested in it
Trumpland
First, let me put out to you I am a fan of Michael Moore since he first came out with Roger and Me. In my movie collection there is a special shelf for his work, and if ever I can find a way to corner him and propose I will do so. I have been single since I was divorced at age 33, and that was just the right length of time ago for me to consider trying marriage one more time, and this time to the right person.
Now: Trumpland.
I think it's a little over an hour. Seems like 15 minutes. You buy it on itunes for about 5 bucks, and then you have it in your library.
The brilliance, like in all his work, is how he carefully, humorously and with deadly aim makes his points. The path to his ultimate end of: "No matter how you feel about Hillary you have one vote and one conscience and one responsibility: get in your car, hold the right hand with your left if necessary (or vice versa) and vote for her" Your life and your country depends on it, is a path where he includes a clip of what the first 30 days or so would be like in a Trump administration, and he likens it to Brexit and a potential American desperation to undo the vote.
He says he has not voted for Hillary, (Bernie fan) or Bill (Nader). He says, as he stands there in front of splendid photos that are billboards of the Hillary we know in her youth and activism, that she may not even see his show (though, somebody, surely, will give her a copy he muses).
He leans in hard into an audience of pro Trump people in a town that has very few Democrats, and he makes all the points and hears their pain of why they want change and why they want a rebel like Trump to bring it about. He brings Pope Francis into the picture, reminds us of all the cardinals who voted for him and little did they know they were unleashing a revolution of positive and unprecedented change that had lain dormant. And he says it is possible our vote for Hillary may bring about similar potentialities, and he names them.
And then he encourages the haters of Hillary to find a good hair on her, and manages to slowly but surely in a brilliant and unobtrusive way to start the stoned faced audience to relax and start smiling. Then he takes them through Hillary Clinton's hard times as a first lady and reminds them of all the scandals and persecutions she has come through, all the while looking out for us, the American people. He shows them how tough she was to kill Vince Foster by jacking up the car before breakfast, writing that suicide note, placing it in his hand, and arriving at the White House without ever being missed. He shows how she was in Estonia as FLOTUS interviewing doctors on their phenomenal record of low infant births in order to bring that skill to the US of A and how it all was dug under the rug and destroyed by the hatred of those who had no alternative but chastized her for doing a job she was not elected for.
Slowly but surely Michael Moore has them eating out of his hand.
Please
do yourself a 5 dollar favor, and see this film. I showed it to my grandson (24) tonight and he was very moved at the end.
The very end, where Michael Moore says: let's dig up Vince Foster and kill him again, and allow her to be the tough first lady we need and she has been waiting to be.
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