“Trump American Drama” was criticized as “documentary bad film”

On the 27th local time, the political miniseries “Comy’s Rules” (poster pictured), based on the personal experience of former FBI Director James Comey, was screened on the top of the showtime television network in the United States, attracting audiences and There are a lot of bad reviews from the critics. The Vulture website in the United States believes that this new drama has too many joking elements and can be called a “documentary bad film.” In addition, because Comey was caught in the whirlpool of party controversy before leaving office, people from both parties in the United States also had no good opinions about this new film, and Republicans even denounced the film for “dimming Trump.”

“Mail Gate” and “Tong Russia Gate”

“The Rules of Comey” is a remake of Comey’s autobiography “Higher Loyalty” published in 2018. It is divided into two episodes. The total length of the film is about 4 hours. The plot runs through two major events during Comey’s tenure: the first episode The focus is on his leading the FBI’s investigation into the “Mailgate” incident involving Hillary Clinton two weeks before the 2016 election. The next episode mainly focuses on Comey’s investigation of the Trump administration’s “Russian Gate” incident. The film’s screenwriter and director Billy Ray said before the release of the new work that he was trying to “restore the truth” through “Comy’s Rules” and that he had “major responsibilities and obligations” for this. However, the reputation of “Komi’s Rules” was not high after the broadcast. By the end of the second episode on the 28th, the show’s rating on the film review website Rotten Tomatoes was less than 5.7 points (out of 10 points). The critics generally believe that the chaotic narrative method of the play not only failed to achieve the purpose of “recovering the truth”, but also made the relevant events more complicated and confusing. The New York Times considered the film “not very good”-the plot is heavy and awkward, the characters are hypocritical, and sensational.

“Trump was portrayed as a beast”

The character portrayal of the play is another “slot” of foreign media, such as overly beautifying the protagonist Comey and overly ugly of Trump. Some media suspect that this way of portraying characters is just “whitewashing” Comey. The American “Rolling Stone” magazine said that compared with Comey’s “saint” image in the play, Trump is simply portrayed as a “beast.” For the performance of the two big-name leading actors, some viewers did not buy it. The British “Daily Mail” quoted a comment from Twitter netizens, “The acting was terrible. Jeff Daniels (starring in the American TV series “Newsroom”) played Comey as an’ordinary American'” and played Trump’s Bradan Gleason (playing Mad-Eye Moody in the movie “Harry Potter”) is too exaggerated, as if “Kobyl (a well-known American talk show host) Lampe’s poor imitation”. The American “Slate” magazine even satirizes that the first half of the play should be called “The Biography of Saints” and the second half is a “horror movie”-Trump is the “big devil”.

The creator denies “in order to change the minds of voters”

In fact, the film has already caused great controversy when the trailer was released. Fox News Online once stated that the film is a move by “the Democratic Party to use Hollywood to promote political fantasy”, and many netizens also called on Hollywood to stop “distorting history.” The US Newsbusters website stated that the film was originally scheduled to be released after the election day, but the production team later moved it forward one month before the election. Not only that, but the events such as “Tong-Rumen” are complicated and have different interpretations, but the crew unilaterally adopted Comey’s version as the truth. The British “Guardian” commented that after the release of the film, the Republicans in the United States are likely to continue to accuse the film of “anti-Trump propaganda”, and Democrats probably will not like the “whitewashing” of Comey by this film. “.

“Rolling Stone” magazine believes that the film’s screenwriter Billy Ray also has a certain bias in the creative process. For example, he admires Comey very much and believes that the latter should not serve as a scapegoat for Hillary Clinton’s defeat; he also believes that Russia will constitute a “major interference” in the 2016 U.S. election, and hopes that the American people will fully understand before the 2020 election. These plots. However, Billy Ray denied that the film was made to change the minds of voters. When asked about Trump’s reaction to the film, he jokingly said, “Maybe I will have multiple ugly nicknames on Twitter”-an insinuation to Trump’s habit of naming critics indiscriminately.