{"id":355574,"date":"2021-10-20T20:02:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T17:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-four-hours-at-the-capitol-is-a-powerful-flawed-documentary-review\/"},"modified":"2021-10-20T20:02:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T17:02:43","slug":"watch-four-hours-at-the-capitol-is-a-powerful-flawed-documentary-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-four-hours-at-the-capitol-is-a-powerful-flawed-documentary-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Four Hours at the Capitol&#8217; Is a Powerful, Flawed Documentary: Review"},"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-6a35846978494\" 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-6a35846978494\" 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-four-hours-at-the-capitol-is-a-powerful-flawed-documentary-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Four_Hours_at_the_Capitol_Is_a_Powerful_Flawed_Documentary_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Four Hours at the Capitol&#8217; Is a Powerful, Flawed Documentary: Review&#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-four-hours-at-the-capitol-is-a-powerful-flawed-documentary-review\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Four_Hours_at_the_Capitol_Is_a_Powerful_Flawed_Documentary_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Four Hours at the Capitol&#8217; Is a Powerful, Flawed Documentary: Review&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Four_Hours_at_the_Capitol_Is_a_Powerful_Flawed_Documentary_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Four Hours at the Capitol&#8217; Is a Powerful, Flawed Documentary: Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Four_Hours_at_the_Capitol_Is_a_Powerful_Flawed_Documentary_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Four Hours at the Capitol&#8217; Is a Powerful, Flawed Documentary: Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        When a group of insurrectionists took the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 in order to disrupt the counting of electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election, one might have expected the events of the day to resonate, months later, far more than they do. The attack seems at times to be rapidly fading from our cultural memory, a testament to the efficacy of one party\u2019s attempts to hand-wave it away as an enthusiastic and passionate protest that lost control.<\/p>\n<p>Into this cultural forgetting strides HBO\u2019s \u201cFour Hours at the Capitol,\u201d a documentary directed by Jamie Roberts. This documentary presents a tick-tock of the events of the day, complete with so much harrowing footage that it\u2019s hard to watch (and hard to believe Roberts and executive producer Dan Reed were able to marshal). The imagery of destruction and assault is powerful on its own terms; it\u2019s in building the story of the participants\u2019 motives and actions that \u201cFour Hours at the Capitol\u201d falters, making what could have been a definitive document into a deeply flawed one.<\/p>\n<p>To wit: Among the first interview subjects we meet is a self-identified \u201cProud Boy,\u201d a member of the organization that wages political violence in support of far-right goals, including the reinstatement of President Trump. This individual, wearing a shirt with a conspiratorial slogan referring to the death of rioter Ashli Babbitt, describes \u201cfighting between patriotic people and Capitol police\u201d and notes, \u201cWhen you really do believe a tyrannical government is basically taking over the country, you\u2019re going to have some crazy stuff go down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One questions what this adds. It\u2019s hardly a noteworthy insight that those that stormed the Capitol believed that finalizing the outcome of a free and fair election was \u201ctyrannical\u201d; broadcasting these claims, as well as conspiratorial imagery on a T-shirt, without any directorial intervention is a judgment call, and in my view, the wrong one. The continued lending of HBO\u2019s megaphone to those who stormed the Capitol extends as far as an \u201cactivist filmmaker\u201d who lists off a variety of QAnon-adjacent claims, and describes the scene inside the Capitol as \u201can interesting vibe. The people were cheerful.\u201d Here, Roberts places trust in his viewer to detect the irony, placing the testimony in counterpoint to video of people milling about and underscoring it with eerie, ethereal music.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine the right way to treat footage like this: It is not Roberts\u2019 responsibility, necessarily, to insert himself into the documentary and assert directly that this is inaccurate. And many viewers will understand that though what they\u2019re seeing in the moment is not literally violent, the footage that comes later is undeniable. We see how close Congress came to facing a violent mob, Senators and Representatives donning gas masks, and the sheer manpower of the mob, constantly sending forward \u201cfresh people\u201d to face down an outmanned police force. In its structure and in the pain and emotion that Roberts elicits from interview subjects, \u201cFour Hours\u201d is a real achievement.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s most frustrating, then, is that studded throughout are denialist claims that serve no useful dramatic or informational point. We know that the events of the day are being minimized constantly, from living in the world. This documentary undercuts its genuinely startling element \u2014 the gathering and structuring of so much inside footage \u2014 with statements that are either purposefully dissembling or reflecting a deluded worldview. Both of these impulses will be intimately familiar to a viewer who watches the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>; one who doesn\u2019t might have benefited from a project that played things a little more straight, taking both sides of the story but using tactics more direct than ironic counterpoint to address the one that doesn\u2019t have truth on its side.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s frustrating here is that the documentary so clearly rides a line. Some of its access to the right is genuinely informative, as in the case of U.S. Congressman Buddy Carter, a Georgia Republican who decries the events because \u201cwe were winning \u2026 we were winning the moral wars.\u201d That\u2019s not all the Republicans could have won on Jan. 6, if Bob Woodward and Robert Costa\u2019s reporting of a plan to throw out electors to ensure a Trump victory is to be believed. Regardless, the <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>roving comparison Carter himself draws between the beginnings of the riot and his own objections to the election \u2014 \u201cWe gotta fight. That\u2019s what I was doing, I was fighting for my people, for my voters,\u201d he says \u2014 is a chilling view of just how close, in aim and in rhetorical style, insurrection and standard-issue 2020s politics are.<\/p>\n<p>What makes depicting Carter\u2019s statements different from a literal Proud Boy\u2019s? Well, what Carter says is inherently newsworthy, as he\u2019s an elected official; his perspective carries weight because of his inherent power to bring it about by force of law (whatever one might think about that). The insurrectionists\u2019 perspective, in addition to being exactly what one would expect, gains power first by force and second by convincing others of its righteousness. And Roberts\u2019 documentary hands them the mic and gives them the opportunity, doing too little to push back. As we\u2019ve seen from the way the day is slipping from memory \u2014 with the man who did so little to call the carnage off for hours poised to run for President again in three years \u2014 there is a great seductiveness to the idea that Jan. 6 was an anomalous but ultimately minor event. What is dismaying about the representation of this point of view, not directly challenged, is that we ought to know better: If there\u2019s a lesson of recent years, it\u2019s that rhetoric, including and especially on television, has a troubling tendency to trump reality.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFour Hours at the Capitol\u201d airs Wednesday, Oct. 20, at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.<\/em><\/p><\/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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