America is a documentary film that looks back on the weeks leading up to Donald Trump’s election, in the small town of Seligman in the heart of Arizona. A film to see for all those who want to touch on some of the reasons which led these people to elect Donald Trump.
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With his cameraman Claus Drexel went to the heart of Arizona in the American Great West not far from Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon sublimated by John Ford, in the small town of Seligman.
Claus Drexel met the inhabitants of Seligma, while Donald Trump was campaigning, and made them talk about their lives, their relationship to this election, to politics, their dreams.
Grandiose landscapes and astonishing lyrics, with something that strikes in this fascinating documentary: not only the profligacy, but also the talent of actors of these Americans. Their connection to weapons, and the almost permanent presence on the screen, of alcohol, of beer. And above all, their relationship to a lost ideal, this American dream symbolized by these large luxury cars now rusted and scrapped. “America” is a must-watch movie for anyone who wants to touch on some of the reasons that led these people to elect Donald Trump.
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