{"id":3424,"date":"2014-07-02T09:43:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T16:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2014-07-04T05:52:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T12:52:45","slug":"review-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=3424","title":{"rendered":"Review: AMERICA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?attachment_id=3425\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3425\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3425\" title=\"Screen Shot 2014-07-02 at 12.35.11 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-02-at-12.35.11-PM-199x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-02-at-12.35.11-PM-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-02-at-12.35.11-PM-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-02-at-12.35.11-PM-400x600.png 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-02-at-12.35.11-PM-450x675.png 450w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-02-at-12.35.11-PM.png 635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?attachment_id=3427\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3427\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3427\" title=\"fixbutton\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/fixbutton.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a>Can you trust the history books? Dinesh D\u2019Souza cautions and beckons you to dig deeper. But exactly what are the \u201chistory\u201d books he\u2019s talking about?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica\u201d is the follow-up to author and now filmmaker Dinesh D\u2019Souza\u2019s 2012 documentary blockbuster \u201c2016: Obama\u2019s America.\u201d I call that film a blockbuster because it sits right behind \u201cFahrenheit 9\/11\u201d on the list of most profitable political documentaries of all time with some $33.4 million in domestic box office sales. This distinction is quite a feat and has made D\u2019Souza a historical footnote in cinematic history. Whether he can recapture the conservative fervor that made him a rock star is doubtful this time around. And the pity is that where \u201c2016\u201d was a roughly shot and edited film that, as I pointed out in my previous review, suffering a bit from technical problems, \u201cAmerica\u201d is a handsomely made picture that one-ups Michael Moore and his team while promoting a Right leaning view of history.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the tease from the trailers for \u201cAmerica\u201d is that the film will give us a view of the country as though it never existed. However, this tease and tagline are not what \u201cAmerica\u201d is about. Rather, after introducing the provocative alternate history idea, D\u2019Souza decides to refute the Left\u2019s historical narrative. And this means he bashes the late Howard Zinn, who wrote \u201cA People\u2019s History of the United States.\u201d Ironically, in presenting the argument against Zinn and others by attacking what D\u2019Souza terms \u201cindictments\u201d of America, he takes a page directly out of the Zinn playbook. \u201cAmerica\u201d asks one very important question: what\u2019s been left out of the history books?<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of Jonathan&#8217;s review in print or online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times-herald.com\/closeup\/20140704WEEKENDER-Movie-Review_America_Hickman\" title=\"America (full review)\">http:\/\/www.times-herald.com\/closeup\/20140704WEEKENDER-Movie-Review_America_Hickman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is conservative filmmaker Dinesh D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s new documentary perfect for July 4th viewing? Read Jonathan&#8217;s review and find out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3432,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions\/3432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}