The fact that we know Weiner lost the election gives this film a sense of inevitability. While Weiner still hopes for some miracle we already know he will always be 'the punchline'. It all stays a bit superficial, but i suppose that's the best any documentary can hope for when your subjects are media-trained up to their eye-balls.
Is Weiner a good person? Nah, he is a politician after all, and i dislike a lot of the things he says in that capacity. And he has this one big moral weakness where he says 'yes' to any woman that comes on to him (coincidentally the same kind of weakness as Bill Clinton: both men not only strayed, but continued to do so after being found out).
But another side of this is that Weiner is depicted as the victim of stalking: one of the women he sexted jumps at the opportunity to do a sex-tape and to follow him around (big silicons in a small dress) and very obviously only started feeling 'victimized' when there was money in it for her. Not an innocent victim for sure, but most stalking-victims aren't.
(and i am really just speculating, but i can't shake the feeling this is one of those cases where a guy married someone he is 'supposed to marry': ultra-thin and with great connections, and doesn't want to admit even to himself that he feels more sexually attracted towards 'ugly women')
Is Weiner a good person? Nah, he is a politician after all, and i dislike a lot of the things he says in that capacity. And he has this one big moral weakness where he says 'yes' to any woman that comes on to him (coincidentally the same kind of weakness as Bill Clinton: both men not only strayed, but continued to do so after being found out).
But another side of this is that Weiner is depicted as the victim of stalking: one of the women he sexted jumps at the opportunity to do a sex-tape and to follow him around (big silicons in a small dress) and very obviously only started feeling 'victimized' when there was money in it for her. Not an innocent victim for sure, but most stalking-victims aren't.
(and i am really just speculating, but i can't shake the feeling this is one of those cases where a guy married someone he is 'supposed to marry': ultra-thin and with great connections, and doesn't want to admit even to himself that he feels more sexually attracted towards 'ugly women')