(SPOILERS BELOW) I watched this on Netflix tonight. I watched it when it first came on TV over a year ago and there has been so much water under the bridge since then that parts of the film are completely obsolete. The story is book-ended by an inquiry of some sort, set in 2020 where everything appears to have gone wrong and the dubious campaign that Dominic Cummings ran is being heavily scrutinised. When this was written the film-makers could not know that their protagonist would be calling the shots inside number 10 itself, making any regret he has about the politicians messing things up by 'rebooting the old operating system' seem very hollow. The ending betrays not only Cummings as a man who thought he could see the future but was in fact mistaken and powerless (which turned out to be wrong), but it also showed the viewer where the sympathies of the film-makers lay far too starkly. Their attempts at even-handedness throughout the bulk of the film, though mostly failures, are completely spoiled by the final scene strongly suggesting that everyone was fooled and the choice was a mistake. This is then compounded by the final captions purporting to show that some form of illegality took place which just this week has been completely thrown out of court, but forevermore this film will end with a wrongful accusation, misleading anyone who watches it uninitiated in the subject matter.
The focus is 85% on Cummings 'Take Back Control' campaign, with comedic digs at Farage and Banks which may be justified. The Remain side are portrayed as complacent, but otherwise in the right. They see their defeat coming too late in a focus group when unable to win over the lady representing their much needed demographic to win. However, she is portrayed as fooled, misled, won over by a lie. The only true thing about that scene is that the Remain campaign have no comfort to offer her, and just sit in silence while she breaks down.
In conclusion, worth a watch. Certainly avid Remainers will enjoy the way it makes them feel right all along, but no Leave voter was anywhere near the writing process or film set when this was made, and subsequent events date it terribly.
The focus is 85% on Cummings 'Take Back Control' campaign, with comedic digs at Farage and Banks which may be justified. The Remain side are portrayed as complacent, but otherwise in the right. They see their defeat coming too late in a focus group when unable to win over the lady representing their much needed demographic to win. However, she is portrayed as fooled, misled, won over by a lie. The only true thing about that scene is that the Remain campaign have no comfort to offer her, and just sit in silence while she breaks down.
In conclusion, worth a watch. Certainly avid Remainers will enjoy the way it makes them feel right all along, but no Leave voter was anywhere near the writing process or film set when this was made, and subsequent events date it terribly.
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