‘My Son Hunter’ was produced by Irish filmmaking duo Anne McElhinney and Phelim McAleer who hail from Mayo and previously produced the film Gosnell about the horrific actions of the real life late term abortionist Kermit Gosnell.
Even from across the Water it is undeniable that the run up to the 2020 US election: the face off between former Vice President Joe Biden and outgoing President Donald Trump was one of the most gripping political pantomimes in living memory.
In the run up to the election there was blanket suppression and denial by the media and political establishment of the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop. Now the story rears its ugly head again in this film of political satire where the mind of drug-addled Hunter and the imagined dynamics between him and his ‘superhero’ father are enacted.
The film directed by Robert Davi shows a hyperbolised side of the Bidens and their associates which is perhaps closer to a hidden reality.
Like them or loathe them, the Bidens are a family afflicted with a great deal of personal tragedy. As the film illustrates Hunter lost his mother and sister in a car accident years before his brother Beau also lost his life to brain cancer in 2015.
At some points of the film it was possible to feel sympathy for Hunter as the screwup son who can never outshine his dead brother in their father’s eyes. As Joe says in the film “Beau wanted to change the world, you want to fingerpaint’.
However as the narrative unfurls we see a picture of a man completely devoid of moral character and self control. As we learn Hunter Biden not only bedded his late brother’s wife, but her sister too.
Through a prism of drug fuelled heathenism involving copious amounts of ‘hookers and blow’ , Hunter’s business deals are the main focus of the film. His lengthy dealings – beyond dodgy – with Ukrainian ‘businessmen’ along with his independently unquantifiable position on the board of Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma Holdings Ltd.
Hunter tells the story from his own perspective to his lust interest ‘Kitty’.
Kitty is a part time college student, democratic party activist, and prostitute who hates her father.
We see how Joe Biden’s son allegedly used ‘daddy’s’ power and influence to earn himself VVIP status among the heads of foreign enterprises, compromising the national security and interests of the United States all along the way.
The film is shot in an interestingly modern style, almost Tarantino-esque in places. The story telling seems to pay homage to Hunter’s drug-compromised state of mind as characters on screen suddenly speak directly to him in places.
An important character is daddy Biden’s female body guard who, throughout the film, breaks the fourth wall and addresses the audience directly.
Many of Hunter’s business partners, both foreign and domestic, were convicted of criminal activity, however Biden himself always managed to ‘dodge the bullet’.
All jokes aside, the content of this film is deeply unsettling. The now admitted compliance of the mainstream media in suppressing a story that could easily have destroyed Biden’s 2020 election campaign is shocking to say the least in a country that prides itself on the protection provided by the First Amendment.
The film was privately crowdfunded and premiers on the 7th of September via its own website.