The Apprentice is the most convincing attempt to open Trump's soul
Text by Harald Olausen
The first images of The Apprentice are powerful and convey a strong message; my tormenting and oppressive common nightmare called Trump walks from the streets of the slums of New York to the tables of criminals to distribute stolen riches in a new way. This movie has been awaited. To understand a little about what Trump has "ingested and when", we need to watch movies and documentaries about him and his presidency. Movie is the most convincing attempt to open Trump's soul- it knows how to focus directly on the events that made Trump what knows him to be through the means of drama.
The film takes us along as if we were watching a live broadcast; Trump is a soulless machine that does not understand man, and sickeningly evil. Right at the beginning of the film, the basic setting is explained. With New York in bankruptcy, disorder and criminal gangs and corruption are rampant. The likes of Trump have their chance. Today, we know him as a monstrosity-mongering contortionist of purposes and meanings - before Roy Cohn, he was nothing more than just another rich puppy. The film tells a story about the core of an evil heart.
The film also describes the mechanics of Cohn's evil through the eyes of his apprentice Donald Trump. Cohn was one of the most visible villains of American white-collar crime and an icon marked by the death of the shadow world, whose frighteningly neurotic character is almost familiar to viewers from Al Pacino's masterful performance in the film Angels In America (2003). The focus of the film is not so much Donald Trump as the sensational lawyer who taught him bad ways as a damn mentor and a well-known con artist, whose incredible ruthlessness and lies and arrogance...
The film describes the development of the bad apprentice Trump's master-rival relationship with Cohn and how quickly the rotten Trump learns to steal money and gain dubious power through fraud, intimidation and cunning manipulation of the media as a natural talent. In the film about Trump, Jeremy Strong, who did a wonderful role, takes center stage as Trump's early lawyer Roy Cohn. Strong's role performance is strong and impressive, bringing even the most sensitive viewer to the verge of tears from the sheer fright.
The Apprentice tells a story from the backstage of everyday life, from the place of the skull, from where evil is controlled and where the American dream always turns into a nightmare, because the winner has to crush his opponent in the name of a sick hero myth and steal everything possible for himself. In The Apprentice, the sweaty backrooms of the wet dream of American capitalism are brought before our eyes, where criminals, whores and politicians roll up their bloody sleeves with dollar pictures in their eyes, that hypocritical and unholy trinity that runs the world from behind the scenes.
Cohn is like a ferocious beast from the Book of Revelation, and Trump is like a more polished and pure version, like the new Messiah. They have a lot of influence. They are right-wing Christians for whom Jesus was not a friend of the poor. Their God is the Old Biblical God of Abraham's vengeance. https://www.kulttuurivihkot.fi/blogit/kinosilma/vuoden-odotettu-elokuvatapaus-the-apprentice-trumpin-tarina/