Of Fathers and Sons’s front-facing depiction of unambiguous evil seems the most likely to draw voters less than moved by the mere existence of the Notorious R.B.G.
The film’s verité approach risks humanizing Abu Osama, but we eventually gain a complex understanding of the banality of his evil.
The film is a testament to the power of video to document resistance to corrupt and abusive regimes, but it’s also a witness to the limits of that power.