Image copyright AFP A key moment in the new film of documentary maker american Michael Moore is the comparison of Hillary Clinton with pope Francis (yes… as you read).
this Is a comparison eye-catching for all the cultural differences, political and even religious that the pontiff is argentine has with the presidential candidate democrat, who professes to methodism.
And yet, the film “Michael Moore in TrumpLandia”, which has just been released in the united States, use of that parallelism with a declared purpose: to add votes in favor of Clinton.
“well, What if Hillary becomes our pope Francis?”, question Moore, of 62 years, his audience.
Mexican apart
The launch of this film was something unexpected up its very premiere, Tuesday night at the movie theater IFC Center in New York.
Almost all the film of 73 minutes, consists of a monologue of the director himself, filmed a couple of times in a cinema in a town in Ohio where the republican candidate Donald Trump has a clear majority.
The shooting happened at the beginning of the month, before going to burst the accusations against Trump of sexual abuse who have committed their campaign, increasing the cronyism of Clinton.
But Moore is skeptical about polls and think that the triumphalism or the laziness of the voters of Clinton can play against the 8 of November.
Then he goes to the village in Wilmington, invites the voters of Trump to participate and, in fact, achieved: among the public there is a mix of supporters of both candidates.
there are Also mexicans, who are sent to a side and covered with a false brick wall, ironizando the controversial proposal of Trump erecting a wall on the border with Mexico.
One of the women segregated protest, saying that it comes from Guatemala, but has no luck: it doesn’t matter if they are or appear to be mexican, respond to him.
in Addition there are muslims, sent to another corner and guarded by a drone that flies over their heads, another mockery to the ideas of the mogul-candidate on that community.
Moore arrives to exaggerate what would happen if Trump win the election, showing a fake news TV on the day he assumes the presidency and orders to bomb the villages of the border with Mexico.
But the main goal of the documentary filmmaker does not seem to be attacking Trump, or lead to their voters, who get to show some empathy for their intention to launch a grenade at the “system that ruined their lives.”
In fact, despite what the title suggests, the movie lacks the courage and the research that they have previous achievements of Moore as “Roger & Me” or “Bowling for Columbine”, for which he won the Oscar for best documentary feature in 2002 exploring the causes of a massacre in a school in Colorado.
No, what Moore wants is that your audience will fall best Clinton. And if it does or not, remains to be seen.
“A populist”
Moore is aware that about three of every five voters mistrust Clinton, according to surveys.
And goes face to face with this questioning directly to the audience: “What is your problem with Hillary?”, “can we say something nice about Hillary Clinton?”.
Although he admits that he never voted for it (made by the current president Barack Obama in the internal democrats of 2008 and by senator Bernie Sanders in this year) launches a series of accolades the former first lady.
A common denominator of these eulogies is that, in your judgment, the candidate has been prepared throughout his life for this moment.
And here is where you enter the pope Francis in his script.
Moore says that when Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope, he thought that it would not be a good thing, by their silence in the face of abuses of human rights in the Argentine dictatorship (1976-1986).
But remember, that then, being Pope, he surprised by saying things such as that atheists could go to heaven or to criticize the capitalism.
Then, asks what would happen if Clinton did what own after waiting so long to get your chance, and sorprendiese the world with a series of transformative measures.
Moore lets fly your imagination by noting that in his first 100 days in government, the first female president of the united States could for example, sign an executive order allowing undocumented immigrants to stay in the country.
it Is curious that someone like Moore to ignore in this debate on how pope Francis has transformed the Church really catholic: his critics and many observers warn that until now nothing has changed of the doctrine, despite his amazing rhetoric.
And this is relevant, since many of those who are suspicious of Clinton do so precisely by viewing it as a piece too involved in the system to change it.
in The end, the own Moore admits the possibility that Clinton as president to disappoint their voters.
And joked that in that case he himself would be a candidate for president in 2020, with a platform that would include the distribution of a gram of marijuana-by-mail Friday, or that only women can buy their weapons.
it Is difficult to establish if this is the film most political of Moore, as all have been in one way or another. But it is without a doubt one of the more proselytizing.
“Michael Moore is a populist,”, mused Charles Michel, a voter of Ohio-62 years after seeing the new movie in Manhattan this Wednesday.
“Your concern throughout his career have been the working poor,” said Michel to the BBC.
“he Knows how to reach out to them and do not think like the liberals of New York, who believe that anyone who votes for Trump is stupid”.
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