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The Great Hack (1/10)

by Tony Medley

Runtime 113 minutes.

TV-MA.

You probably didn’t know it if you voted for Donald Trump, but, according to this film, everyone who so voted did so because they were swayed by a devious manipulation of “fake news” masterminded by an outfit called Cambridge Analytica. At least that’s what this Machiavellian piece of propaganda would have you believe.

Directed by Karim Amer & Jehane Noujaim it is filmed sort of cinema-verite, but it is really ham-handed. There are shots of Brittany Kaiser, who is pictured as a beleaguered whistle-blower from Cambridge Analytica that would have you believe that they are shot by an eavesdropping camera in real time as she’s flying or watching testimony on TV.

But let’s get real here. There is an entire crew filming her and recording her picture and audio at the same time. The ones on the plane are truly bogus. She’s flying somewhere and talking to herself, but there’s a camera right there next to her looking at her sitting in a window seat and there has to be a microphone somewhere to pick up what she’s saying, and she’s not saying it to the camera. We are to believe that she’s just talking to herself. It’s the same as the shots in what appears to be her home as she’s watching TV and talking to herself. Yeah, she’s talking to herself and an entire crew that is standing just outside of camera range. The bottom line is that they are all staged; they probably did retakes if something was wrong with the original.

The question is, can Brittany Kaiser be trusted? Well, she is a democrat who worked for Obama and Howard Dean, and voted for Bernie Sanders, so you be the judge.

Also prominently featured, in fact she is almost the narrator, is Carole Cadwalladr, a left wing journalist best known for a series of articles for The Observer about what she called "right-wing fake news ecosystem.” Amer and Noujaim really just let her take over the film and set its tone.

Equally spurious and intentionally misleading are the profuse minutes devoted to showing the Trump team targeting voters with selected news designed to win their votes, presented as if this is some nefarious, underhanded way to conduct a campaign. In fact, all campaigns have targeted voters in this way throughout history. There’s nothing nefarious about it.

Produced by Geralyn Dreyfous, who is a big democrat contributor, more than $40,000 to Obama and other democrats, if The Great Hack is anything it’s inherently biased and dishonest.