Totally Under Control

2020 • 123 minutes

À propos de ce film

On January 20th, 2020 the US and South Korea both discovered their first cases of COVID-19. However, 9 months later, the novel Coronavirus has claimed the lives of almost 200,000 Americans and caused staggering economic damage, while in South Korea, there were no significant lockdowns and, in an urbanized population of 51 million, only 344 lives have been lost. Where did we go wrong? As the presidential election nears, Americans are increasingly enraged by a lack of clear leadership, endemic political corruption and left to wonder how did the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world manage to fail so thoroughly in its response to a global pandemic? Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, directing with Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger, interrogates this question and its devastating implications in Totally Under Control. With damning testimony from public health officials and hard investigative reporting, Gibney exposes a system-wide collapse caused by a profound dereliction of Presidential leadership. It will be a generation before we know the full extent of the damage wrought by this pandemic, but Totally Under Control will stand as the definitive account of the Trump administration's incompetence, corruption and denial in the face of this global pandemic.

Notes et avis

What a bunch of LUNATIC REVIEWERS, even WORSE documentary. I love how the blame is thrown on ONE PERSON'S shoulders, when HE initially closed borders in preparation for this, and was ridiculed and called racist for doing so. Meanwhile, ALL the mainstream media proclaims it wasn't that bad, that Trump was making a bigger deal than needed at the time, and Pelosi was throwing block parties in CHINATOWN, San Fran, telling everyone it was fine, there was no problem. You people are screwed in the head. Furthermore, each state reacted DIFFERENTLY to the virus, and the Governors did what THEY felt was neccessary, along with letting riots and protests occur. But that's okay. Blame one person for what HE cannot control due to the Liberals and media creating their own narrative. God help us if Biden wins the election. At least we held the Senate. Some stupid people, here...

Of course, here come the pseudo-scientists to discredit the facts. The one-star review here claims about how deaths are counted is the usual idiotic non-educated person who doesn't grasp the concept of comorbidity. This film is informative and helps to explain the incredibly inept and botched response from the USA leadership, namely the president. I do think it omits the lack of response from Congress.

Yes, some methods employed were harsher than what was used in the US. However, considering the lack of strategy by the federal government, with the idiotic partisan resistence to appropriate protection measures, and the rapid fire misinformation supplied by the White House, the number of needless deaths won't be known for quite some time. Mr. Trump should not, and will not, be forgiven for his string of disasterous, and seemingly malicious, actions. History will not be kind to this president.