Review of Where to Invade Next (2015) by Jacob — 11 Aug 2016

Where to Invade Next makes me hate America. Not that there aren’t a lot of things I love about America from high school and college experiences to so far having a mostly peaceful and non-critical life but after learning certain features that some countries have I can’t help but want to move especially with the prospect of Trump becoming president.

This documentary helps incite that idea by showing various other countries are implementing that America doesn’t but could and should. It’s kind of eye opening the features other countries have from a prison system that doesn’t subject people to cruel and unusual punishment to no drug laws so as not to shut down racial minorities not giving kids schoolwork to give them time to figure themselves out and ensuring prisoners can vote and prisons get to host debates where candidates come in.

Learning how simple a lot of these ideas are and how we could do them and how in some cases these ideas were lifted form America is quite fascinating. Obviously, the documentary is glossing over some of the downsides of these countries and features America has that they don’t and perhaps it could’ve been a bit more of a balanced documentary had it done that but as such the documentary set out to do what it had to do make us question America and expose its flaws by comparing to other countries whose political figures, officers, teachers, and citizens scratch their heads at our way of thinking.