Why Jeff Bridges Is Rooting For Donald Trump
In the vast poverty-stricken expanses of rural Texas, two brothers start knocking over banks to get the money to save their family's land. They blame the banks, they blame the system. They're angry, they're hurting, and financially desperate. Their neighbors are feeling the same way. Even if they see these guys running off with the bank's money, they're not going to turn these men in. The bank is taking from everyone. It's about time someone took from the bank.
Hell or High Water, a modern Western in which the real bandit is Wall Street, is less of a heist movie and more of an examination of the middle America that's often overlooked. It's the America where among the rusted old cars and tiny towns separated by hours of highway are frustrated people. As Entertainment Weekly pointed out in an interview with Jeff Bridges, the film depicts the perspective that aligns with many Donald Trump supporters.
Bridges himself puts that into context with a lengthy message about why he's rooting for the President-Elect:
The story the movie is telling shines a light on why the election went the way that it did, and how seriously disappointed many people have been in the way that the government is running. They have little faith in it, and we'll see. I hope we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater here. But I'm rooting for the guy, Mr. Trump. One of the things that's most appealing about him is his unpredictability. A less kind word might be his hypocrisy, but unpredictability and hypocrisy are things that each of us human being share. It's something we all struggle with and work with. I was pleased to hear his acceptance speech. Taken out of context, that would be wonderful. Talking about unpredictability, who would have thought that he would be praising Hillary Clinton and thanking her for her wonderful work after trashing her and inviting all of the people who didn't vote for him, that he'd be looking for guidance from these people, all of these wonderful things? I'm rooting for the guy, but we'll see how it all goes. You just don't know how it will all work out.
Will our country's historians look back at the next four years and tell its story with Hollywood-style twists and turns? If we follow Jeff Bridges' advice, we're just going to have to sit back and see where the plot goes next.
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