![]() ![]() D’Souza makes things up-mostly arguments that don’t make any sense. I put the word “documentary” in quotation marks when describing D’Souza's film because it isn’t really a documentary at all. The problem is that the rest of America is a total piece of junk. ![]() The actors, especially the rangy, reedy-voiced gentleman who portrays Lincoln, all seem like they know what they’re doing. D’Souza has a fondness for dramatic reenactments of Important Moments in Our History: George Washington charging into battle, Abraham Lincoln debating Stephen Douglas, liberal community organizer Saul Alinsky creepily watching children play from his parked car. The acting isn’t so bad, either, such as it is. I thought for a minute that I had put on my Deadwood DVD by mistake. ![]() I like the way the macho, clanging music pairs with the slow-motion footage of a burly blacksmith forging the letters A-M-E-R-I-C-A in his ember-filled 19th-century shop. Even the recurring shots of D’Souza doing things that are deeply boring to watch-reading a book, staring at a computer, purchasing a hot dog-have a professional sheen that makes them seem dramatic somehow. It’s well-lit, well-filmed, and well-edited. The follow-up to D’Souza's surprise box-office hit 2016: Obama's America-an anti-Obama polemic that earned over $33 million in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election-looks pretty handsome. ![]()
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