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Capitol Punishment (2021)
It must be fake, because the government isn't responding to it? really, that's your reasoning...
It's not a big budget Hollywood production. It is more truthful than any Michael Moore production. That said, there is only 2 areas in the film that I saw as staged. 1) When interviewing a senior woman in her home and the cameras were already inside her home looking from her perspective when Nick comes in the door. And 2) The collage at the end of the movie of some of the people at the end of their interviews singing a/o dancing to 'Ain't gonna take it anymore'. Which means it was planned from the beginning. This doesn't make this a fake. To me just questionable in some areas. Scenes from the Capitol grounds are real. The actions of individuals there are real. Yes, it is puzzling why the government isn't reacting to these images in an investigory(?) manor. Or they are, have, and are suppressing it for some reason. To me, the blatant over reaction by the FBI to raiding American citizens at their homes for going to a protest is inexcusable. If you know where they live and a simple record check can tell you if they are a violent criminal type, why the overreaction. Yes, be cautionary, but also realistic, are these criminals? I would like to see a sequel movie, say after 1 year, about the follow-up investigation of incidents and instigators documented in this movie. Not to spoil the movie, watch it yourself and make up your own mind. Like it or not, you cannot honestly critique it until you've seen it.