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\"\"RBG <\/strong>(2018)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Magnolia\/Documentary\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 98 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG (some thematic elements, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Betsy West and Julie Cohen\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Miriam Cutler\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Claudia Raschke\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 11, 2018 (Philadelphia, PA)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gloria Steinem, Nina Totenberg.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0If any Supreme Court Justice can be described as a rock star, it\u2019s Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The left-leaning feminist and pop culture icon is the subject of RBG<\/strong>, a compelling and sometimes funny documentary that looks at her life and legacy. The title is a call-out to the nickname bestowed upon her by her fans \u201cThe Notorious RBG\u201d which, of course, is a reference to the famous rapper The Notorious B.I.G. Ginsburg jokes that they\u2019re not all that different; they\u2019re both from Brooklyn. She\u2019s a fascinating figure who also has her detractors, something that RBG<\/strong> barely acknowledges. As of late, she\u2019s known for her dissenting opinions. Shouldn\u2019t it follow that a documentary about her should delve into dissenting opinions about her?<\/p>\n

\u00a0Directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen take us through 85YO Ginsburg\u2019s entire life starting with her childhood. It was evident early on she would never fit into the role of the ideal woman of the time. Intelligent, independent and outspoken, she wasn\u2019t about to accept a life in which her husband brought home the bacon for her to cook. In fact, she couldn\u2019t cook to save her life. Her grown children joke that she was banned from the kitchen by unanimous vote.<\/p>\n

\u00a0After high school, she went to Harvard Law School where she was one of nine women in a class of over 500. It was there that she met her husband Marty on a blind date. She comments that he was the first guy who accepted the fact that she had a brain. He was one of her most ardent supporters; he didn\u2019t even object when she opted to continue her education after giving birth to their first child.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Once she earned her law degree, Ginsburg went on to be part of several landmark cases before the Supreme Court like the groundbreaking 1973 Frontiero vs. Richardson case where it was ruled that the US military cannot deny benefits to ANY of its personnel because of gender. Ginsburg ultimately won five of the six cases she argued before the Supreme Court. When arguing a case, she would use it as an opportunity to teach the all-male panel that gender inequality did indeed exist. When she did, she did so in a quiet yet firm manner taught to her by her mother. Yelling, she explains, just makes people turn away.<\/p>\n

\u00a0RBG<\/strong> keeps returning to her Senate Committee confirmation hearing in 1993 after then-President Bill Clinton nominated her to fill the seat vacated by retiring Justice Byron White. She was only the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court after Sandra Day O\u2019Connor in 1981. The hearing was overseen by conservative Senator Orrin Hatch (one of the interview subjects) who tells her that he admires her even though he disagrees with her politics.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There\u2019s a lot to like about Ginsburg, especially her ability to take a joke. She\u2019s shown laughing while watching Kate McKinnon\u2019s impression of her on SNL. To be fair, it\u2019s one of the few good things about SNL these days. She\u2019s also quite the dynamo; she regularly exercises with a trainer. It\u2019s said that she does 20 push-ups three times a week. It\u2019s no wonder many see RBG as a superhero. Many, not all.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There are those who don\u2019t like her. Certain right-wing figures have referred to her by unfavorable terms like \u201cwitch\u201d and \u201cvery wicked\u201d. RBG<\/strong> doesn\u2019t devote a whole lot of time to the anti-RBG folks. We get a few sound bites at the beginning and a brief sequence dealing with her anti-Trump comments in 2016. She took a lot of flak for that. I realize and appreciate that the makers of RBG<\/strong> intend for their documentary to sing Ginsburg\u2019s praises. Hey, I like her too. The woman is a real firecracker. But why not tell the whole story? If you\u2019re going to bring up those who don\u2019t agree with her, you should examine their issues with her more closely. You should delve more deeply into the complexities of the law.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As much as I like RBG<\/strong>, I would have liked a fuller portrait of a woman who has become an idol to a younger generation as evidenced by the many memes about her. She really is a fascinating person. She\u2019s a huge fan of opera. She was close friends with Justice Antonin Scalia, her political polar opposite, until his death in 2016. We get many details of her personal and public lives. Overall, RBG<\/strong> is a good movie even if it is just preaching to the choir.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RBG (2018)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Magnolia\/Documentary\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 98 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG (some thematic elements, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Betsy West and Julie Cohen\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Miriam Cutler\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Claudia Raschke\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 11, 2018 (Philadelphia, PA)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gloria Steinem, Nina Totenberg. Rating: *** \u00a0If any Supreme Court Justice can be described as a rock star, it\u2019s Ruth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/RBG-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6464,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287\/revisions\/6464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}