{"id":245697,"date":"2021-05-09T09:16:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T06:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-citizen-penn-review-sean-penn-the-activist\/"},"modified":"2021-05-09T09:16:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T06:16:04","slug":"watch-citizen-penn-review-sean-penn-the-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-citizen-penn-review-sean-penn-the-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Citizen Penn&#8217; Review: Sean Penn the Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f3be3f1836\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f3be3f1836\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-citizen-penn-review-sean-penn-the-activist\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Citizen_Penn_Review_Sean_Penn_the_Activist%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Citizen Penn&#8217; Review: Sean Penn the Activist&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-citizen-penn-review-sean-penn-the-activist\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Citizen_Penn_Review_Sean_Penn_the_Activist%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Citizen Penn&#8217; Review: Sean Penn the Activist&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-citizen-penn-review-sean-penn-the-activist\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-citizen-penn-review-sean-penn-the-activist\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Citizen_Penn_Review_Sean_Penn_the_Activist%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Citizen Penn&#8217; Review: Sean Penn the Activist&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Citizen_Penn_Review_Sean_Penn_the_Activist%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Citizen Penn&#8217; Review: Sean Penn the Activist&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        \u201cCitizen Penn\u201d opens in Hollywood in 2019, with Jamie Foxx, in high spirits, introducing Sean Penn at a benefit gala for Haiti. It doesn\u2019t take long for the spirits to come crashing down to earth, as Penn, founder and spokesman of the J\/P Relief Organization, hits the audience with a Debbie Downer buzzkill. The Russians, he says, are testing hypersonic nuclear weapons; populist demagogues are turning the world economy into a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>; and climatologists, warns Penn, give us 11 years before \u201cglobal catastrophic failure.\u201d He adds, \u201cLies, greed, rage, sexism, and racism threaten to induce further violence in our own streets.\u201d But then, just as you\u2019re getting ready to see people streaming toward the exits, something funny h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens. Penn says that it\u2019s the cardinal rule of fund-raising not to bum out the crowd. He then spreads his hands and grins, acknowledging that\u2019s what he just did.<\/p>\n<p>That he can be so deadly serious is very Sean Penn; that he can laugh at himself about it is also very Sean Penn. \u201cCitizen Penn\u201d is a documentary about Penn\u2019s life as an activist \u2014 specifically, his decade-long mission to improve life for the people of Haiti \u2014 and if you go into it thinking that you\u2019re going to be rolling your eyes at the ultimate self-deluded celebrity do-gooder, the movie may stop you in your tracks. As \u201cCitizen Penn\u201d demonstrates, Sean Penn\u2019s activism isn\u2019t for show. It\u2019s for real.<\/p>\n<p>Yet you\u2019d be forgiven if you needed a bit of convincing. The template for Penn\u2019s extracurricular missionary zeal has always been: He walks the walk, instead of just talking the talk. Where other celebrities preach about saving the world in self-righteous signifiers, he takes action by going on the scene (to Baghdad during the Iraq War, to New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, to Haiti after the catastrophic 2010 earthquake), and by staying there long after the disaster-relief-volunteer-as-photo-op window has closed.<\/p>\n<p>In Haiti, we see him set up a sprawling tent hospital that serves thousands of people and saves many lives. He works 20-hour days for months, appearing periodically on Anderson Cooper\u2019s nightly CNN broadcast, but also staying long after the cameras have gone. The organization he founded has hung in there for a decade, raising money, coordinating volunteers, helping to rebuild the country.<\/p>\n<p>Yet \u201cCitizen Penn\u201d does acknowledge, without making too big a deal of it, that there\u2019s a way that Sean Penn\u2019s trouble-spot dedication can dovetail a little too exquisitely with his image, creating a kind of aging-James-Dean-of-the-killing-fields persona. The question that may occur to you watching \u201cCitizen Penn\u201d is: When Penn goes on his missions, is he leaving Sean Penn the movie star behind? Or is he creating the ultimate real-world Sean Penn movie?<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cCitizen Penn,\u201d the film\u2019s director, Don Hardy, interviews Penn sitting at home in what appears to be a downstairs rec room with a guitar and a grand piano and wall-to-wall carpeting that looks like teal AstroTurf. The actor himself cuts quite a figure, with his denim shirt and Brillo-pad hair and mustache that makes it look like he\u2019s still trying to play some knockoff of Rupert Pupkin. He smokes incessantly (American Spirits), which is one of those used-to-be-cool-but-is-now-so-uncool-that-it\u2019s-actually-cool Sean Penn things, and you can hear his devotion to the smoking in his voice, which is gravelly, with a bit of a quaver to it. He\u2019s 60, and that\u2019s a lot of years of hard living, but once you get past the studiously disheveled Penn trappings, he\u2019s remarkably articulate and informed and compelling to listen to. He makes the case for taking action, and doesn\u2019t explain why he feels compelled to. It\u2019s written all over his weary-rubbery face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were an airplane that built itself after takeoff,\u201d he says of the J\/P Haitian Relief Organization, which was ultimately renamed CORE. \u201cThat\u2019s a perilous ride in so many ways.\u201d Penn was mocked by many for cozying up to the late Venezuelan president Hugo Ch\u00e1vez (a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ist with dictatorial tendencies), but whatever your view of Penn\u2019s visit to Venezuela, he wound up asking Ch\u00e1vez to provide 350,000 bottles of morphine for emergency medical relief in Haiti, and Ch\u00e1vez came through. (These were drugs needed to ease the pain of amputations, among other things.) Penn fought to keep the tent hospital standing, he worked hand in hand with the U.S. military, he helped to relocate the adjacent refugee camp when it was threatened by mudslides, and he secured the funds to clear literally miles of earthquake debris from the streets of Port-au-Prince.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this is stirring stuff, and all of it is worth learning about, but as a documentary \u201cCitizen Penn\u201d is more diligent than riveting. It may sound perverse to say that the film doesn\u2019t have much in the way of a dramatic conflict, but a good documentary often needs one, and Penn\u2019s ongoing mission of mercy in the impoverished hellscape that Haiti, for a time, became is presented as a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of battles that are met, fought, and (mostly) won. Penn keeps saying, in essence, \u201cIt\u2019s not about me.\u201d Yet the whole reason we\u2019re watching this movie is that it <em>is<\/em> about him. I personally would have liked to hear more about how Penn\u2019s activism gets threaded through the other currents of his life. Watching \u201cCitizen Penn,\u201d I believe in the depth of his compassion, much as I believe in Jane Fonda\u2019s or Bob Geldof\u2019s. I also believe that Sean Penn is a complicated person who carved out the role of the con<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> of Hollywood for complicated reasons. If you want to get a hint of those, you need to wait for a different documentary.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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