It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Scott Tobias here again with Genevieve Kosky and Keith Phipps.

On the first half of this episode, we discussed Michael Moore's galvanizing debut feature, Roger and me.

With this half, we'll check in on Moore's latest documentary, Fahrenheit 119, an up-to-the-minute examination of life under Donald J. Trump.

A semi-sequel to Fahrenheit 9-11, his pre-election dirty bomb about George W. Bush's first term in office,

Fahrenheit 119 begins with an homage to the was-it-all-dream sequence that opens the earlier one. The dream, in this case, is the unlikely election of Donald Trump to the was it all a dream sequence that opens the earlier one.

The dream, in this case, is the unlikely election of Donald Trump to the presidency after pundits

and pollsters had all but declared Hillary Clinton the winner. From there, Moore offers a

wide-ranging, and at 125 minutes incredibly long, assessment of how Trump came to get elected at the fealty of both

parties to corporate interests and in other hot topics like the parkland shootings, the wave of

strikes by teachers unions, the candidacies of exciting newcomers like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

and what Donald Trump has in common with Hitler. At the same time, he also returns to his hometown of Flint, Michigan,

and digs into the water crisis that continues to make national headlines.

He doesn't quite go full Roger and me,

but he does his best to heckle Michigan Governor Rick Snyder,

who bowed to corporate interest in changing the city's water supply from Lake Huron

to the polluted Flint River, resulting in unsafe levels of lead.

To more, Snyder's neglect of ordinary citizens has compounded the problems elucidated by Roger

and me and has sent his native city to a darker place than ever. We'll talk about all those

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