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Hollywood and Trump's America: one country, two filter bubbles

2020-10-21T09:28:25.850Z


Several films are starting in the USA that clearly take a stand against President Trump - and ignore the real problems of US society. So they all stay in their filter bubble.


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Netflix drama "Trial of the Chicago 7": Sacha Baron Cohen (left) in an almost serious role

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Niko Tavernise / NETFLIX

"The whole world is watching!" The demonstrators chant while the police pull their batons.

"The whole world is watching!" The call booms louder and louder, but blood will flow anyway.

Officials in riot gear hit the unarmed, and a cloud of tear gas hovers over the fray.

What is fatally reminiscent of the "Black Lives Matter" protests of the past few months is a sequence from the film "The Trial of the Chicago 7" and recreates true events that occurred 52 years ago.

In August 1968, thousands of people protested against the Vietnam War during the Democratic Congress in Chicago.

There were violent clashes with police, injuring hundreds, demonstrators, officials and journalists.

The street battles in 1969 led to a lawsuit against some leaders of the anti-war movement, which is known to many in the USA as the "Trial of the Chicago 7".

The film that now bears this title may deal with circumstances that lie in the past.

The reason it appears now is a very contemporary one: the election of Donald Trump as President in 2016.

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