An Unreasonable Man

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This doc is all about Ralph Nader. His other aliases include The Saviour, The Light, and more commonly just The Truth. He is responsible for all sorts of shit including forcing GM to include seatbelts on their cars in the 60s. Unfortunately, people don't pay him any love or respect when he ran for president four times. This film gives a glimpse of Nader's legacy from the past 50 years and critically examines his role in the 2000 presidential election as a third party candidate. With hindsight, had Nader not run, Al Gore would have undoubtedly become the President instead of George Bush. The question the film asks is whether Nader should have backed down and allowed the lesser of two evils take the presidency.

Side note: As an example of the die-hard support this guy has, he sold out Madison Square Garden for what he called a "super-rally" in 2000 - charging people $20 to come and listen to him speak. Or maybe they were there to see some of his supporters: Bill Murray, Ben Harper, Eddie Vedder, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, and some other geezers. At the same time, Bush and Gore were paying to bus people to smaller rallies.

8.8/10