“Boys State” Provides An Equally Powerful And Upsetting Look At The Potential Future Of Political Division

Many might describe “Boys State,” the critically acclaimed and Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine as timely. Especially as the United States finds itself once again in a divisive presidential election.

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Boys State (★★★★☆) has found the perfect formula for distilling our modern political era down to one riveting campaign among a group of teens in Texas. Since 1935 — starting in Illinois, then throughout the U.S.

divisive and ugly are now inexorably baked into our DNA, and that politics are designed to find them and bring them out.Dirty tricks? Negative campaigning unencumbered by facts? A naked lust for power of any kind, even if it’s just symbolic? Positions adopted out of opportunism rather than conviction? Empty slogans deployed in lieu of actual reasoning? Thinly disguised racism? Yeah, they’re all here, and for the most part once can only hope that these kids will either grow out of it or find