DENIAL is a current movie, more or less a true story, about a Holocaust denier who filed a libel suit against a historian who denounced him. The reviews have been so-so, but I found the film moving. Rachel Weisz employs a wicked Queens’ accent. And, no surprise, the movie made me think of Donald Trump.
DENIAL is about confronting human evil. At the moment we are confronting Trump, a global warming denier and so on, but, most telling, he denies his own history as a sexual predator. Right now 12 women have accused him, and soon it will be 120 women. He is on tape boasting of his predation. Yet Trump denies and denies and attacks the truth tellers. He presents raw lewdness in human form for us to see. We watch him cartoonishly writhing like a dying orange fire. His fate is public and loathsome and something ordinary family people like me can marvel at.
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