Post by robeiae on May 16, 2021 18:59:52 GMT -5
A two part documentary--each part is 2 hours long--on HBO, it deals with the opioid crisis in the US.
Here's a review: www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/entertainment/the-crime-of-the-century-review/index.html
Here's another: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-crime-of-the-century-tv-review-2021
I've dropped this thread in politics rather than Movies and TV or General Current Events because there is a political angle in it, even though most of the blaming is directed at Big Pharma, distribution companies, and shady doctors/pharmacists (CVS really takes it on the chin).
That angle sweeps up Repub and Dem alike, members of the Bush, Obama, and Trump admin alike. Some pf the people slammed include Marsha Blackburn and Tom Marino (both Repubs), who together spearheaded a bill that royally fucked over the DEA, with regard to its ability to police the opioid industry. The bill was signed into law by Obama in 2016. Hillary Clinton also takes some heat, as does good ol' Rudy Giuliani.
But the two that caused me to rant at the TV (really) were Chris mother-fucking-Dodd and Jaime the-spawn-of-Satan-Gorelick. As if these two turkeys weren't already to blame for enough of the horrors in 21st century USA.
For those unaware, I contend that Chris Dodd deserves more blame than any other elected official for the mortgage crisis on 2007/2008, while Jaime Gorelick stupidly involved herself in intelligence matters during the Clinton admin in a way that some have argued made 9/11 possible (from there, she went on to a cushy gig at Fannie Mae, where she was a part of the posse who fleeced the org for millions in bonuses for doing absolutely nothing). And now these two slimes of humanity turn out to be two people who helped make sure the opioid crisis didn't get shut down early on (Giuliani played a part, too). GAH!
Here's a review: www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/entertainment/the-crime-of-the-century-review/index.html
The title "The Crime of the Century" serves multiple purposes in director Alex Gibney's HBO documentary, highlighting the criminality associated with an opioid epidemic that has dragged on throughout this century. While the focus is on Purdue Pharma and the family behind it, the four-hour project spreads the blame, building on existing reporting with "secret documents and never-before-released depositions."
There is a great deal of convincing evidence that proves how billion-dollar pharmaceutical companies are the true drug dealers behind America's opioid crisis, skirting full accountability for years by paying penalties in paltry millions so they can keep making billions. (Meanwhile, 500,000 Americans have died from opioid-related overdoses since 2000.) Much of that evidence is crammed in the two-part docuseries “The Crime of the Century,” some of which has never been seen by the public before with regards to depositions and court documents. Such revelations, gathered by prolific documentarian Alex Gibney and his team, prove to be an incredible and necessary find. It's more that the flaws in this docuseries come from Gibney's storytelling, as it's the narrative shifts or even tacky music choices that can give you whiplash more than how the overall narrative accuses pharmaceutical companies of mass murder. But while "The Crime of the Century" becomes a wildly broad damnation of the forces behind the opioid epidemic, it's nonetheless righteous in its anger.
I've dropped this thread in politics rather than Movies and TV or General Current Events because there is a political angle in it, even though most of the blaming is directed at Big Pharma, distribution companies, and shady doctors/pharmacists (CVS really takes it on the chin).
That angle sweeps up Repub and Dem alike, members of the Bush, Obama, and Trump admin alike. Some pf the people slammed include Marsha Blackburn and Tom Marino (both Repubs), who together spearheaded a bill that royally fucked over the DEA, with regard to its ability to police the opioid industry. The bill was signed into law by Obama in 2016. Hillary Clinton also takes some heat, as does good ol' Rudy Giuliani.
But the two that caused me to rant at the TV (really) were Chris mother-fucking-Dodd and Jaime the-spawn-of-Satan-Gorelick. As if these two turkeys weren't already to blame for enough of the horrors in 21st century USA.
For those unaware, I contend that Chris Dodd deserves more blame than any other elected official for the mortgage crisis on 2007/2008, while Jaime Gorelick stupidly involved herself in intelligence matters during the Clinton admin in a way that some have argued made 9/11 possible (from there, she went on to a cushy gig at Fannie Mae, where she was a part of the posse who fleeced the org for millions in bonuses for doing absolutely nothing). And now these two slimes of humanity turn out to be two people who helped make sure the opioid crisis didn't get shut down early on (Giuliani played a part, too). GAH!