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- 2022
- This Land Film
- 2022
- This Land Film
Summary This Land looks at the lives of Americans from all walks of life. Filmed on Election Day 2020 with numerous film crews, it chronicles a historic day from the eyes of everyday Americans, each with their own struggles, triumphs, and goals.
Directed By: Matthew Palmer
- 2022
- This Land Film
- 2022
- This Land Film
This Land
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Summary This Land looks at the lives of Americans from all walks of life. Filmed on Election Day 2020 with numerous film crews, it chronicles a historic day from the eyes of everyday Americans, each with their own struggles, triumphs, and goals.
Directed By: Matthew Palmer
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
63
50% Positive
2 Reviews
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50% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Empathy and balance is the reason you must see This Land.
The narratives in This Land are compelling, even if each of them would benefit from more screen time. (The Covid-19 pandemic affected the shooting schedule, and it shows.) On the whole, the film is best seen as a collage, rather than a definitive report, of the array of opinions brought on by the Trump-Biden race.
This Land often feels like a simplified (but not unwelcome) plea for sentimentality— its observational approach essentially diffuses any political reading. It’s odd to watch a film so invested in the rhythms of politics that is also strangely apolitical.
Despite its lyrical presentation, the film’s lingering ideas are straightforward and sentimental, arguably even self-serving. Our political divide can be bridged only by those who take the time to see each other, and who approach such patient acts of observation from a place of genuine compassion, concludes the filmmaker who set out to prove as much in the first place.
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