See an exclusive clip from the new documentary 'Totally Under Control,' which chronicles the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker has in recent years trained his lens on Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes , corporate corruption , Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky , the Church of Scientology and other contemporary torments. His prolific output prepared him to chronicle the coronavirus pandemic in real time, directing alongside frequent collaborator Ophelia Harutyunyan and “The Weekly” producer Suzanne Hillinger.
Ahead of the clip’s premiere, we sent Gibney a handful of questions about the documentary. Here’s what he had to say via email. Our approach was to focus on the early days, particularly the first 100 days. That was the period when things could have been different. If we had behaved differently, the whole outcome of this pandemic in the United States could have changed dramatically. Our focus was not to follow every event, but to focus on the early days.
We considered it and ultimately decided not to. We added a card to the end that noted it happened the day after we finished the film. We felt strongly that the diagnosis was a kind of darkly poetic reflection of the themes and issues that we had already uncovered about the early days of the virus and how Trump, despite knowing the dangers of the disease, never properly reckoned with them.
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