This came up while I was browsing Netflix and it seemed vaguely interesting and I was bored so I decided to sink 90 or so minutes of my life into it, which was... maybe kind of a mistake. I could've spent those 90 or so minutes watching a Peter Sarsgaard movie and maybe I should've. I think that would've enriched my life much more than having watched this documentary did. I have two prevailing thoughts about this documentary: 1) What the fuck did I just watch? and 2) How repulsive. (that's the tl;dr of this post right there) The documentary itself I guess was alright, but the subject matter was varying degrees of repulsive. As some might say, it offended my delicate liberal sensibilities. (That sentence was supposed to be humorous/satirical/etc)
The documentary is about this one guy who you could say orchestrated Donald Trump's campaign, at least before he got fired (according to Trump)/quit (according to him). Despite no longer working for the campaign, his influence lingered. That's basically the gist of it. This guy, the titular Roger Stone, is a Nixon worshiper and to this end, has a tattoo of Nixon's face on his back. No lie. Watch the documentary (if you can bear to) and you'll see. In addition, his office is plastered in Nixon posters. Anyone who worships Nixon shouldn't be trusted. Despite his claims to the opposite, Nixon was indeed a crook and this Roger Stone guy comes across pretty similar, as does Donald Trump, and all the other people associated with him.
At one point in the documentary, he claims that there's a difference between his actual self and a character of the same name, in the same way that Colbert Report Stephen Colbert is a character. I'm not sure if I buy his claim about that.
I thought that this documentary took too much of a dithering tone towards Roger Stone, and I would probably have preferred if it had taken a less objective (fight me) stance and denounced the guy. I can't be the only one who found him repulsive. Here's a nice recap/review to that effect: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/get-me-roger-stone-the-recap_us_594c4d88e4b0c85b96c657fd
I don't really have much more to say about this... piece of work than I already have (see tl;dr at the beginning), so here is a decent summary/review of the documentary from The Atlantic:
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