HBO's Running with Beto is a Study in Ditching Your Family
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Study Hall’s Chris Thomas looks at how the documentary works less as a tale of electoral politics than as a meditation on what it means to leave your family in the dust in pursuit of your (highly unrealistic and potentially selfish) dreams. Life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get. Sometimes, you win a position on the Senate; sometimes you lose the race by 214,921 votes. At least for Texas almost-senator Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke, he got a shiny documentary film out of it: HBO Films’
HBO's Running with Beto is a Study in Ditching Your Family
HBO's Running with Beto is a Study in…
HBO's Running with Beto is a Study in Ditching Your Family
Study Hall’s Chris Thomas looks at how the documentary works less as a tale of electoral politics than as a meditation on what it means to leave your family in the dust in pursuit of your (highly unrealistic and potentially selfish) dreams. Life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get. Sometimes, you win a position on the Senate; sometimes you lose the race by 214,921 votes. At least for Texas almost-senator Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke, he got a shiny documentary film out of it: HBO Films’