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‘McVeigh’ Review: Alfie Allen Impresses In This Chilling Account Of The Radicalization Of The Oklahoma Bomber – Tribeca Festival
‘McVeigh’ review: Alfie Allen impresses in a chilling account of the radicalization of the Oklahoma Bomber – Tribeca Film Festival
His close ties to white supremacist Richard Snell, a convicted murderer put to death by lethal injection that same day, might — reasonably — lead one, and especially people of color, to wonder why this man needs the oxygen of publicity, nearly 23 years after his own execution. Deliberately austere non-fiction stories of this kind are a genre to themselves, and, for reference, McVeigh plays out much Alexandre Moors’ 2013 underrated Sundance entry Blue Caprice, based on the 2002 DC beltway sniper attacks, or, more pertinently, Gus Van Sant’s Palme d’Or winner Elephant(2003), which took its cue from the Columbine school murders. Given the fractious nature of American politics right now, Ott’s film might be too on the nose to catch a commercial audience, and its sudden and confusing coda is really too much to take in, being an information overload that — it seems — tries to replicate the jumbled madness of right and wrong going on in McVeigh’s head (sorry, but it’s way too late to be throwing in a near-subliminal reference to the CIA’s controversial MK Ultra program).
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