I don’t think I ever enjoyed watching a movie that annoyed me so much as The Trial of The Chicago 7, Aaron Sorkin’s latest, streaming on Netflix.
In 1968, the Democrats held their national convention in Chicago, where Mayor Daley (the father, not the son) had his police beat the crap out of hippie demonstrators, plus a few reporters who got in the way.
- SCHULTZ: Didn’t you state, Mr. Hoffman, that part of the myth that was being created to get people to come to Chicago was that “We will fuck on the beaches”?
THE WITNESS: Yes, me and Marshall McLuhan. Half of that quote was from Marshall McLuhan.
For the movie, Sorkin decides to rewrite history. He changes timelines, makes up dialogue, and just sort of fits what happened into what he wants to do.
A particularly bizarre fantasy when you consider that Trump was, for many years, pals with Jeffrey Epstein, a notorious pedophile.
Just imagine how outraged you’d be if some right-winger created a movie in which Abbie Hoffman was taking orders from Ho Chi Minh.
