The Swamp | 2020 | HBO Docs
An orchestral score with re-purposed themes and a narrative touch walks the difficult line of letting characters reveal their own heroism and hypocrisy.
The Swamp | 2020 | HBO Docs
by Dir. Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme
Directed by Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme (Get Me Roger Stone), The Swamp provides a look behind the curtain of Washington politics by following three renegade Republican Congressmen — Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Thomas Massie (R-KY), and Ken Buck (R-CO) — over the course of a pivotal year in politics as they champion President Trump’s call to “drain the swamp."
An orchestral score helps lend this verité-heavy political doc a touch of narrative feel, poking at it’s hypocritical characters without spoiling the fun of watching them betray their own corruption.