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Split: A Divided America
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CodyM
Posted 7 days ago
Re: Disappointing.
The reason most of the talking heads are liberal is the sampling the come from. They wanted educated, watchable, well-spoken, informed people to be the face of this film. It's tough to find people on the right that fit that description.

I'm not saying that as an insult or as a though it's a good thing; simply put 9 of every 10 college graduates are left leaning or progressive, that's simply the way education and political parties coincide in this country.
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chemjeff
Posted 8 days ago
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
Disappointing
Overall I thought this movie was disappointing. The producers at first claim to go on a cross-country tour to see what Americans "really think" about "five important questions" but mostly they just end up talking to a bunch of talking heads, who "just happen" to be mostly liberal. I agree with the earlier comment that the comparison to slave states in 1850 and red states today is historically wrong and downright offensive. Overall this movie is about a bunch of liberal kids trying to "discover" how we are more alike than different, but they cannot escape their liberal biases in doing so. So they don't mind interviewing Noam Chomsky, Thomas Frank, Ted Rall, Al Franken, Jesse Jackson, along with a whole bevy of liberal college professors, and on the conservative side all they could manage to find was some unknown conservative talk radio guy from Iowa, and Bob Dole's presidential campaign manager. Oh give me a freakin' break. Here is a clue: if you really want to understand "the other side", it is like learning a new language. The best way to do it is to immerse yourself. Live, work, sleep, and breathe alongside your political foes and you will hate it at first but eventually you will begin to understand their deep motivations. And, they aren't evil.
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Musiciansmallet
Posted 25 days ago
1 of 1 person found this review helpful
DONHO163, you obviously don't understand history
donho163, your statement is completely WRONG. Did you even bother to take time to actually even watch that piece? Or is your understanding of history that incompetent? Do you really think in 1860 the democrats (pro-slavery party at the time) controlled New York, Illinois (Lincoln's home state), and all of New England? And do you really think the Republicans (Lincoln's party, where the abolishonist faction existed) had control in Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and Louisiana??

The film contrasted the 1860 Democrats with the modern day Republicans. We can trace this conversion back to FDR in the post-depression era. But the major swap happened with the civil rights legislation of the Kennedy/Johnson era in which the southern, conservative "dixiecrats" defected to the Republicans. This bore our modern day liberal-democrat and conservative-republican scheme.

All in all the movie was all right, but not enough history involved to show us how we got to this point... it just exposed something that most well informed Americans are already aware of w/o really explaining its origins.
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ladonnaXIII
Posted 29 days ago
Good attempt to explain deep-seated anger in America
I'm a baby boomer and I do not solely base my thinking merely via TV. I'm on the computer 80% of my spare time as opposed to TV and have only basic cable.

I'm a huge Internet browser addict. Please don't making sweeping stereotypical statements such as this with your boomer bashing.

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