Two feature length documentaries today. This afternoon I saw INFORMANT, an Austin based story of an energetic organizing radical enthusiast who turns into an FBI informant. A complex story that I was familiar with after seeing a documentary about the two young men he turned in to the FBI at SXSW. While I think Brandon Darby is a center stage character loving the attention from anyone I have always seen this story as complex. Molotov cocktails are made but not thrown. The young men who have served prison sentences never intended to hurt people, only things. We hear radicals defending the destruction of corporate property, we hear of kids with stressed childhoods, we see a creepy turncoat advocating for THE TEA PARTY, and I always feel sad, uncomfortable and frankly, can't cheer for anyone. The documentary is well made and won the documentary award at this year's AFF.
This evening we saw ANN RICHARDS' TEXAS. God how I miss her. Wonderful footage of this intelligent, witty, ballsy, gutsy, sexy, alive Democrat. How different we'd be here in Texas had she beat George Bush in that governor's election. What the world needs now is another Ann Richards. Let's get Elizabeth Warren some cowboy boots and teased hair and she'll do just fine.
No one could ever be quite like Ann Richards. The world could surely use more people like her now!
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