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Barrett’s film pointedly notes Giuliani grew up in a neighborhood once known as Pigtown (Crown Heights), it says everything about the agenda of this film. There is an irony watching former mayors take measure of Rudy Giuliani’s two terms: Ed Koch speaks about Rudy Giuliani’s heavy-handedness but the words sound hollow issuing from the lips of imperial Koch whose 3 terms as mayor saw regular “Days of Rage” demonstrations. Koch forgets names like Michael Stewart and Eleanor Bumpers while opining on Rudy Giuliani’s relations with the minority community but, laughably Koch presided over one of the most corrupt mayoral administrations in NYC’s history. Better yet is David Dinkins grousing yet, as mayor he sat idle during the Crown Heights riots and Korean grocer boycott. Giuliani far from perfect did take a city people thought unmanageable and restored order, improving the lives of all NYers and though many would paint him as a power mad racist, an interesting footnote is Bloomberg changed term limits laws without approval by NYC voters. Surprisingly, during Bloomberg’s tenure NYers have seen the shootings of Ousmane Zongo and Sean Bell but somehow Bloomberg escapes the racist tag? Simply not much to expect of a film which implies one of the best mayors New York had during the 20th century is connected or influenced by the Mob because of vague family ties, must be the Italian surname. Painting a Catholic school education as a hallmark of privilege (although middle class families in NYC have and continue to use this option to public schools) is a joke. Again, Giuliani is far from perfect and suffers many personality flaws but he deserves better treatment than he gets in this 118 minute long piece of propaganda. Don't waste your time on this biased garbage that masks itself as factual.

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