It’s a movie about the ethics of photojournalism set in an extremely vague backdrop of a civil war in the United States. It could have happened anywhere else, Gaza, the DMZ, Greenland - it wouldn’t have made a difference.
Which maybe was the point. The brutality of war looks the same everywhere. And that brutality is what photojournalists survive to tell the world what’s important. But that message is undercut by the fact that we don’t see how the photos…
I wasn’t sure what I was getting into when I started watching, but I’m glad I did. This is storytelling where the director just lets the film speak for itself. It dives into the different cultures that led up to the Jan 6 attack on Congress (Antifa, Proud Boys, Jones, etc). The interviews aren’t about “gotcha” questions or to convince people one way or the other. It just lets both sides bring what they have to the table and you…
Man I miss New York
What a story about dreams, persistence, and heritage. Lin never misses
