Once in self-love with Anthony…
Near the beginning of Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s Weiner, one of the film-makers asks their subject, the allegedly “disgraced” ex-congressman Anthony Weiner who, in 2013, decided to run for mayor of New York City, if his wife, Huma Abedin, had wanted him to get back into politics. He says that she did because “She was very eager to get her life back that I had taken from her.” Or, as one enthusiastic critic summed it up: Ms. Abedin was “a fellow political animal who felt, as he did, that another race would be the only way their lives could return to normal.” There, in a nutshell, lies the essential phoniness at the heart of this film. It is not possible that anyone actually believes what he says or implies here — not the film-makers, not the audience, certainly not Huma Abedin, whose life, notwithstanding her close association with Hillary Clinton, has not been lived in the public gaze. Her husband’s submitting himself again to the scrutiny of the media, let alone to that of the film-makers he invited to follow him around on the campaign trail, is nobody’s idea of “normal.” Not even his own.......To Read More.....
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