Trumps Rise to Power

The Netflix original Trump an American Dream episode "Manhattan", is about Donald Trumps life leading up to him becoming the President of the United States. The film starts off with a piano playing slow and load, building intensity as Trump steps out and into a secret service car. It then shows them drive off with a full police escort. The film then goes all the way back to 1975, showing old camera footage of people and advertisements. The first person who is interviewed is a New York City police officer, who eventually loses his job along with 19,000 other city municipal workers. He was talking about how dangerous the city was during this time period. The next speaker is a reporter from the New York Post at the time. He talks about how there was so much to write about during this time. There is old footage shown of fires, trash piling in the streets, and fire hydrants broken open. This point of the film is building a hopeless feeling for New York City at the time. Then it cuts to an interview being held with a young Donald Trump. He speaks about how he started out working in construction and how he wanted to be like his father. It starts to build Donald Trump up, but they have an old columnist come on and talk about his relationship to Trump. He talks about how they knew of each other but were not necessarily friends. He brings up how Trump asked him three years in a row, "How's your Pop?" But the columnists had already told Trump in previous years that he dad passed away. The film then jumps right back to a family friend talking, who talks about how she and Donald met. She speaks highly of him. At this point in the film, it does seem as if it is bias to trying to make people like Trump. However they do throw in interviews here and there to try to make it seem unbiased. It then starts to take a turn to show how Donald Trump started to turn around parts of the city. His first project was the Commodore Hotel, which he attempts to get a 70 million dollar loan for. This was his first big project that had nothing to do with his father. The film jumps to a city council hearing to see if the loan would be given. It shows people speaking and Trump sitting nervously. The decision is finally given, Trump wins the tax break and gets the loan to save the hotel. It saves jobs and was seen as a win for the city in some eyes, but as a loss in others eyes.
The film is a documentary, which is just about the only way to do a film about a actual person. They show old footage of interviews and they show current time interviews. It also shows old footage of streets and buildings and people during the time, to show how life was.