02-16-2019, 05:27 AM
So I dug a little deeper. The director-producer (Marshall Curry) of the movie said, "What bothers me more is the reaction of the crowd. Twenty-thousand New Yorkers who loved their kids and were probably nice to their neighbors, came home from work that day, dressed up in suits and skirts,..."
The only problem is that statement appears to be a wild exaggeration. The group was the German-American Bund, not the average New Yorker/American. I seriously doubt many New Yorkers were going home Monday after work, changing their clothes, and coming back to the Garden like it was a Friday night Rangers-Maple Leafs game. This article says there were almost 100,000 counter protestors outside the Garden.
The movie is not even a documentary. It's just some archival footage with barely any information, no narration, and no insight. So, you have this lazy guy Curry who gets some footage and pretends he did something artistic and meaningful with it.
This "documentary" is nothing more than an extended political ad, just like what you'd see in campaign season.
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