Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss' terrific new documentary covers the 2018 Boys State event in Austin, Texas.
In “Boys State,” an electrifying documentary about the mock-government program for high schoolers, the act of governance itself sometimes devolves into outright mockery. What else would you expect when, to quote one amused participant, “you put a bunch of 17-year-old boys in a room together”? You get campaign speeches overflowing with ego and testosterone. You get legislative sessions jammed with nonsensical proposals, like a $15 billion infrastructure bill to combat an alien invasion.
at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and begins streaming this week on Apple TV+. Filmed during the week-long Texas Boys State event in June 2018 by a nimble camera crew , the movie comes at you like an Armando Iannucci remake of “Dazed and Confused” — it’s a comedy, a heartbreaker and, above all, a twisty and suspenseful piece of political theater. Its rough-and-tumble snapshot of American youth in action is somehow both troubling and exhilarating.
The human tendency to favor personalities over policies — to assess candidates based primarily on their eloquence, charisma or lack thereof — is a natural flaw of our political system. “Boys State,” itself organized around names and faces rather than issues and procedures, both reproduces that flaw and ingeniously exploits it.
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