Boys State, Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’ Sundance-winning documentary, is an occasionally excruciating but always captivating political commentary that hints at what the future of US democracy might look like.
Arriving this week on Apple TV+, the film spotlights the Texan chapter of a week-long annual leadership conference that teaches young men about government.
It culminates in a simulated two-party election where some attendees compete to become ‘governor’. All of these candidates are 17-years-old, and McBaine and Moss use this fact to comment on the cyclical, sometimes dirty nature of grown-up politics.
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