film October 30, 2018 “Monrovia, Indiana,” Reviewed: Frederick Wiseman’s Anguished Study of Small-Town America Richard Brody The New Yorker It is, after all, about a slice of red-state America at a time of fierce political polarization. In the wake of the 2016 election, traveling to Monrovia—a mostly white town in the vice president’s home state—was hardly an idle or random decision.
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