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Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019)

Rate: 7
Viewed: 4/20

4/20: To understand Donald Trump is to begin with Roy Cohn.

Honestly, I didn't know anything about him until I recently saw the fantastic biopic Citizen Cohn starring James Woods. It shows you how much this guy has fallen out of the public's consciousness.

Describing him, Victor A. Kovner said, "You knew when you were in Cohn's presence you were in the presence of pure evil." No matter how much the evidence was stacked up against Roy Cohn, his strategy was "to deny everything, never apologize, never back down, and attack your accusers with maximum force." Does it sound familiar right now?

Where's My Roy Cohn? does okay by recounting his life but omits a lot of details. Hence, it plays out like a Trump propaganda piece. I think the filmmakers were either too young or immature to handle such details. Even Roy Cohn himself would've insisted on them doing a better job. Yes, I was left thinking, "Why didn't anyone put him away for life?" Eventually, as a consolation, AIDS claimed Roy Cohn.

All in all, minus the Trump references, Citizen Cohn covered more aspects of Roy Cohn's life, painting him as an evil man, compared to Where's My Roy Cohn?

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