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...Point of Order and In the Year of the Pig, there is no narrator in America is Hard to See -only a collection of TV footage of the important events of the McCarthy campaign from November, 1967, through the following August. But rather than having a single narrator, de Antonio uses a series of interviews filmed lastfall with people involved in the campaign to tell the story...
Most of those interviewed played fairly important roles in the campaign-people such as Sam Brown, Arthur Miller, David Hoch, Richard Goodwin, and McCarthy himself. Flashing back and forth to the interviews, de Antonio is able to tie together what each says into a chronological account of the campaign. While those he interviewed-especially Miller-provide much insight into what went on, it is unfortunate that more ordinary supporters were not allowed to explain their attraction to McCarthy. This, however, is a minor fault...
...Antonio handles the two most shocking events of the presidential campaign-the death of Kennedy and the Chicago convention-with particular skill. America has seen too many flag-draped coffins, too many widows. De Antonio shows only a group of weeping blacks and the thousands who lined the tracks to see the funeral train...
...apocalypse in Chicago is presented in the same low-keyed manner. Wisely avoiding what could only have been a replay of Medium Cool, de Antonio concentrates his camera completely on what went on inside the amphitheater. The film ends as Hubert Humphrey accepts his nomination in grateful praise to his president. Nothing more has to be said...
ANYONE who expects an objective treatment of McCarthy in America is Hard to See will be disappointed-he obviously would not have made the film if McCarthy had not captured his imagination. One cannot help wishing, though, that de Antonio would provide more help than he does in explaining McCarthy. Others have attempted to do this-as the rash of books on the campaign will attest-but most either make no attempt to be critical or, like Jeremy Larner's Nobody Knows, complain that McCarthy was not an entirely different person than he really...