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I'm a leftist. This is propaganda and devoid of substance.
This "documentary" paints Buttigieg as a tenacious underdog and a champion of the poor and working class. I honestly feel sorry for Chasten for having to live with a man whose best professional quality is unbridled ambition. Buttiegieg isn't an accomplished politician and he did a LOT to hurt communities of color in South Bend, but none of this was mentioned. We get a scene of his town hall meeting in which PoC were seething at his handling of a white officer's killing of a black man and the very next scene is an image of Pete sitting in his upper-middle-class kitchen looking solemn as if to convey that the real victim is Buttigieg himself. But it's genius editing to make the Iowa claim of victory look hard-fought and fair while leaving out the precincts that were reported inaccurately and never fixed. This is just another one of the Democrats' pseudo documentaries that is meant to put a candidate/politician in a relatable-to-the-everyday-worker light and misses spectacularly. Pete has zero substance, no plans to help poor and worker class and like many Democrat super stars, he's all platitudes and will fail to deliver anything if he is pushed on us again. This film made me feel 90% that I'm being sold something I don't want to buy and 10% super sorry for Chasten who seems like a super nice and authentic human. This film made me like Buttigieg less and I, a very left-leaning person, didn't think that was possible. There's no substance to this movie just like the man himself so I guess it inadvertently did what it set out to do, at least for me. This has still left me wondering who Pete Buttigieg is outside of his desire to be president? I guess we'll never know or we're not supposed to. 1 star.
November 2021 · Movies and TV · verified purchase