See the rules for this place [HBO Max]

direction: Andrew Callahan | Scenario: Andrew Callahan | game time: 82 minutes | year: 2022

Twenty-something Andrew Callahan excels at documenting the American underbelly, gonzo-style. His breakthrough came with the All Gas No Brakes YouTube channel, and he is currently attracting millions of viewers with Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan. The strength of his style is still very much intact The rules of this place. This documentary shows his journey across the United States in late 2020 that led to the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. But Callahan looks too far and broods on what he experienced, which repels immersion in what happened.

Sitting in the director’s chair, he talks things over together as a reporter for The New Yorker. In the style of a daily journalist, he tells how several charlatans like Alex Jones played their audience during and after the 2020 US presidential election, when the pandemic also caused political strife. The crew’s presence on all major parades creates an insightful picture of how many were flogged. It happened outside of the usual social media channels, because all the provocateurs had already been thrown in there.

The consequences are very frightening when Callahan meets a family that is under the influence of QAnon. One moment he’s playing nicely with the kids, the next moment someone’s blindly repeating the most outlandish conspiracy theories. When someone else says she misses her friends now that their parents keep her at home so they don’t have to wear a face mask to school, it shocks her. The Best Moment is a testament to Callaghan’s gift of openness to people.

Even when his opinion is clearly expressed, he is respectful of others and acts like a kind of informant when he pushes a microphone under someone’s nose. Then one unabashedly shows one’s stomach, like a man dressed as a priest who can’t stop talking about the evil of male circumcision in protest of the election results. But often, the obvious ideas also come from the most unexpected quarters. For example, a character tattooed with the name The Joker, including an incomprehensible Florida accent, gives a funny explanation for what all charlatans do.

Just like on YouTube, silly situations are there The rules of this place With sudden transitions to surprising reactions, Callahan’s respect for the interviewee nonetheless still applies. This openness puts him in contact with prominent personalities who could spare him without Callahan getting sucked into “both sides” of the mainstream media. Crammed into a trailer, for example, a host obsessed with pedophilia offers conspiracy theories reminiscent of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Fascist militia leader Enrique Tarrio can talk casually about how Antifa is the bogeyman (which is clearly contradicted by interviews with anti-fascist protesters on the front lines).

Callaghan even interviews host Alex Jones, which leads to bizarre scenes of them feeding each other whiskey and Jones’ signature outbursts after Callaghan tries to confront him about his role in instigating the break-in. appears at such times The rules of this place The need for exposure, something less common in Callaghan’s YouTube work. His own reporting appears there, such as a documentary on trap music that strikingly exposes social abuses in the United States. Understanding subcultures works even stronger when Callaghan is just shoving a microphone under his nose rather than trying to explain too much.

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