Boys State .

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#BoysState

Tremendous #BugsyMalone-Meets-#MrSmithGoesToWashington-Meets-#LordOfTheFlies fun…except it's all real😲!

I mean, the inevitable feature adaption will be a moot point, because this thing looks, feels, acts like the best of the awards-season mid-budget narrative fiction films of yore: from the impossibly high production values (man, it must nerve-shredding for a neophyte to break into the world of documentary films these days - the crafts[wo]manship bar has been set impossibly high!) to the pitch-perfect(ahem🤣) casting, to the kind of rising tension/stakes they apparently teach you in film school(the lessons never took with me🤦‍♀️), all building to the absolutely-perfect almost-too-good-to-be-true ending👍!

And the casting, hoo boy, can you come up with a better leading quartet than these four? And all the other characters on the periphery… man, seriously, dynamite stuff, absolutely dynamite.

And yeah, the sort of devils-bargain rationalisation that you talk yourself into to convince yourself that yeah, the ends justify the means…well, that's a lesson that these kids will (not🙁?!) be learning for the rest of their lives.

Man, I wish all my future kids will have the integrity + tenacity (intacity, anyone🤪??) of Steven and the unyielding, stick-to-your-gu…er, stick-to-your-principles oomph of Rene…

Tl;dr (as these kids will surely say🙃!): an absolute must-watch, especially heading into the teeth of election season!

PS. All that honest, raw, open, human emotion at an all-boys camp/school...man, society sure has come a long way, no😏?

PPS. Give the editor(s?) *all* the #Oscars!

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#AmandaMcBaine #JesseMoss #JeffGilbert(✂️🎞👏👏) #ThorstenThielow
Steven, Rene, Robert, Ben…and many, many, many others
#BoysStateMovie @boysstatemovie @appletvplus @AppleTV @a24

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