Brexitannia

This is a very poor account of the Brexiteers of the UK. There is no start middle or end, brexit started in 1973; this hodge podge should have better spent their money elsewhere, the BBC did a podcast called "Brexit: A Love Story?" - Impartial, well researched, educational, and above all, very well narrated! Highly recommend! THIS is TRASH

What a shame! This is a genuinely a good idea for a film but its bias soon seeps through; better educated, liberals v less educated, working classes. There were no doubt a greater variety of social classes on both sides of Brexit that is presented. This is theatrically polarised. This was a good chance to present a real snap of history. But it feels the film maker may have selected his characters for the final cut based on his own subconscious bias. Pity, but worth a watch all the same.

For those who wanted to know why Brexit, the documentary opens up with the people. We get to hear from people who voted to remain or leave the European Union. The documentary reminds me of why the USA elected Trump that year. The disenfranchised Britons voted for Brexit without realizing what they were going to lose. I read about euro skepticism where the British politicians blamed Brussels long before for their problems at home. The documentary isn't shocking but realistic and relatable. The second half included world renowned linguistic professor Noam Chomsky and other experts. Sadly the documentary doesn't include the expert names. I would have liked something more in depth overall.

1) This film utterly ignores history. There have been concerned and resistance to full on integration under the EU super-government umbrella from the common market, EEC, EU and Eurozone. It is nothing new or some kind of bright line, but a long process based continuum.

2) Apparently only leavers can be populist? We saw socialist populist governments for decades in Greece, in Italy, in Spain, even Scandinavian countries, but thta kind of insanely irresponsible "populism" is ok as long as it is left oriented?

3) Only Brexit proponents (leavers) make misstatements? Fact checking websites have shown that the remainers make as many false, idiotic, irrational statements as well.

4) No mention is made of the fact that the remains tend to have direct self interest. In fact most of the "experts" cited at the end of the film work for institution with direct interest in remaining. it is unethical not to note their interest.

I've watched this film with a lot of interest, it's on a major topic, it's important to see how people think, what they think about this stupidity called Brexit, to see what they really feel. I wanted to make a similar movie myself, maybe I'll do it until the Fall of 2019. Even the title, "Brexitannia", it's a cool find.