End of Year MOVIE JOURNAL 2020

[Chris Knipp]

WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME (Marielle Heller 2020). Reproduces a recent Broadway production, as happened this year also with HAMILTON and DAVID BYRNE'S AMERICAN UTOPIA, but this one by Heidi Schreck, being on Amazon, may be easier to access and lose less. Schreck shows how she has found through personal suffering that the Constitution does not protect women and is designed for, as well as by, white males. Like a balls-out high school class by a dramatically gifted, committed feminist teacher. Might arouse more thought about the US Constitution than usual. Did not move me much though. It's mainly didactic. Metascore 87% means critrics agree with the feminist politics, not that this is a work of art. Watched on Amazon Dec. 26.