The Rorschach Candidate: Finding Meaning in 'Being There'

Dave Crewe revisits Hal Ashby's political and cultural satire through the lens of the current moment, finding it a still-provocative and ambiguous work with reverberations in phenomena ranging from social media to the Trump administration.

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Film as Text, comedy, Peter Sellers, Jerzy Kosinski, whiteness, Donald Trump, religious allegory