Knock Down the House

I've never been a big fan of AOC, but this is an amazing window in the process faced by citizens trying to disrupt the establishment bias of congressional and senate elections. Brilliant documentary style and very down to earth compared to similar attempts. Doesn't focus heavily on the politics involved, significantly more on the process.

No matter who you vote for, this is a great watch.

There's a lot of 1 star reviews and 10 star reviews which indicate political bias, I gave 8 stars for which I'll explain. Being based in the UK I have no party preferences in the US, I don't have any in the UK as I don't believe in the vote.

This documentary looks at the grassroots movement that took place in 2018 to get ordinary working class people (women of colour) into power against those taking money from big pharma/lobbies etc who are supposedly not really in it for the people.

It mainly follows 4 women who are trying to get into Congress. We hear personal stories such as that of Amy Vilela, Cori Bush and Paula Jean Swearingen.

However, unless you've been living in a cave without internet, you've heard of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The newbie who is challenging Joe Crowley, unchallenged for 14 years and no one is expecting to be beaten.

It's the fact that AOC takes most of the screen time that those who oppose her views are giving 1 star reviews. Personally, I would say if you are after the journey it takes these women, in AOC's case a David v Goliath battle, you will enjoy this like I did.

To end politically, the reason why I don't vote is I don't believe that people are listened to, you have Brexit here in the UK and look at how the people were deceived by politicians to leave, now 2 years down the line, it's clear the Brexit we may well get is not the one we wanted. This is what happens when politicians stop serving for the people. In the USA, all sorts of money is donated to politicians for their campaigns, of course there is going to be reciprocal support when it comes to making laws, these will not favour the people but the corporations, the sooner this becomes more apparent, the better. No one should have to die because of the complexity of insurance and the profit driven motives of those corporations.

Let's start off by just throwing away which party you normally designate yourself with. This movement doesn't involve parties. This movie is representing and documenting the journey of the working class finally being represented by someone who can relate to us and fight for us. One of the greatest lines in the movie was "it's not me vs Crowley, it's us vs Crowley". I think this is a must see film which I enjoyed and I'm not even political, barely even follow politics. Of course close minded extreme republicans will dislike this film but anyone who can see that parties are irrelevant now and fighting for what we deserve, no matter who you are or where you come from in life, will very much enjoy this movie.

Me and my friend watched this movie together. He is a Trump supporter and I'm more liberal. Needless to say we both were in tears at the end. If you can put your politics aside and look at it as a film about bravery and standing up for what you believe in then you can enjoy this movie. We are a free country so ideals and thoughts should be diverse and even though some people see things differently we can still have compassion and be moved when we see someone who is an underdog become and unlikely hero and win. A very moving film.

Such an inspirational film. Hits all the narrative an emotional beats and gives us such as good backstory into the lives of women running for congress in 2018. Annoyed that many of the reviews so far seem to be composed by explicit anti-AOC types, rather than focusing on who the subject is about focus on the quality of the film you are watching!!!