Director John Wellington Ennis, like a growing number of Americans, is alarmed at the warping of American politics by corporate wealth. Unfortunately, in his documentary Pay 2 Play he keeps getting sidetracked in his pursuit of the causes and solutions by incredibly tangential distractions. Academic Lawrence Lessig, through his exploding Mayday Pac, may be the only person in the film who’s actually positioned to address the corrupting influence of money on politics in a strategic and organized manner, but he gets only about 15 seconds of screen time. Instead, there’s a crazy 10-minute digression into the litigious history of Parker Brothers' Monopoly board game so tenuously related to the film’s purported concerns that the director has to connect t...
- 9/9/2014
- Village Voice
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