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“The Apprentice” is the movie Donald Trump doesn’t want you to see—and for good reason. A sneak preview at TIFF revealed a damning film about the making of a monster.
Donald Trump doesn’t want Americans to see The Apprentice, and with good reason—it’s a bona fide supervillain origin story. Director Ali Abbasi’s much-buzzed-about film—premiering in theaters Oct. 11, following a special sneak peek at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival—can at times be frustratingly clunky and on the nose.
Even so, it’s an incisive primer on the relationship with Roy Cohn that made the 45th President of the United States who he is today. Which is to say, it lays out the gory details regarding the source of his egomania, greed, ambition, vanity, sociopathy, and heartless rapey-ness, the last of which comes to the fore in a brutal assault of his first wife Ivana.
Abbasi’s tale introduces us to Trump in the late ’70s as a neophyte real estate developer operating under the enormous shadow of his mean titan father Fred (Martin Donovan). Despite his relatively slight stature, however, he’s become the youngest person to ever receive an invite to join the members-only NYC hot spot Le Club. There, he locks eyes with Cohn, whose glare is so blatantly Satanic that it’s pointless for Gabriel Sherman’s script to later have Trump call him “the devil.” |
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