The latest offering from the “documentary” stable of the NZ Film Commission, covering the leadership of Jacinda Ardern and the alleged rise of violent extremism and online hate in NZ, may end up being as fair, balanced and neutral as a Labour Party political broadcast.
It doesn’t have a title yet but what about:-
JACINDA-MANIA - to the edge of reason and beyond
Funded to the tune of $800k of tax-payers money, this visual feast promises to tell her “truth”, her single source of “truth”....and nothing like the real truth, about the meteoric rise, but not the precipitous fall, of one of New Zealand’s most iconic leaders.
Some might reasonably object to this kind of spending as frivolous and inappropriate, given the straitened times we live in. Or even a complete waste of money given the Commission’s track record of funding commercial flops. Probably both.
