‘Boys State’ Review: Even Teen Politics Is a Dirty Business in Sundance-Winning Documentary
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thewrap.comdivisive and ugly are now inexorably baked into our DNA, and that politics are designed to find them and bring them out.Dirty tricks?
Negative campaigning unencumbered by facts? A naked lust for power of any kind, even if it’s just symbolic? Positions adopted out of opportunism rather than conviction?
Empty slogans deployed in lieu of actual reasoning? Thinly disguised racism? Yeah, they’re all here, and for the most part once can only hope that these kids will either grow out of it or find careers somewhere other than politics.Directors Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine (“The Overnighters”) put a political spin on the time-honored techniques used to cover big competitions like this in films like “Spellbound” – get a bunch of cameras, spread.
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