You all think I'm late.

Well, I'm not late.

I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause.

Even if this room gets filled with lies like these.

You are listening to Civics 101.

I am to Capadice.

I'm Christina Phillips.

I'm Hannah McCarthy.

And today in our cinema

civic series, we are talking about the big one, Mr. Smith goes to Washington.

What do you know about law or making law to what the people need? I don't pretend to them.

And what are you doing in the Senate? Now, first off, I wanted to tell you, too, that this was not initially my first pick for cinema civics.

I was going to do Network, which is one of my favorite films of all time.

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Veal.

But then I had a conversation with my mom, and I said, well, I can't decide if I'm going to do network or Mr. Smith

goes to Washington. And she was like, you have to do Mr. Smith goes to Washington. I said, why?

And she said, because it's a really hard time right now and people need hope. They don't need

media cynicism. They need a story about, you know, one person can fight against a problem or a difficulty in the government.

So I followed her advice.

Before we launch into the movie, Hannah, Christina, the three of us are people who love to be sarcastic.

And speaking for myself and myself only, a little bit of a know-it-all from time to time, it would be easy and it would be fun to sort of talk about how corny and propagandist, rah-rah America, and completely naive this movie is.

Let's just break that for like one day, or at least for 10 minutes of one day.

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