Watch A Dick Pic Spectacularly Explode A Congressman’s Career In This Great New Doco
At least he wasn't dipping it in red wine, right?
In 2011, US Congressman Anthony Weiner became a household name for all the wrong reasons. It wasn’t for his sterling record on voting to ensure women retained full reproductive control over their bodies, his efforts to increase the scope of Medicare giving more Americans access to essential medical services, or even his increasingly promising run for New York mayoral office. It was for a dick pic.
Weiner gained notoriety from the supreme (yet woefully common) act of folly which results from thinking women want their phones jam-packed full of leering, obtrusive penises — and this isn’t because someone splashed it across the tabloids. The married politician accidentally posted the picture of his bulging middle-aged man underwear on his official Twitter account while sexting a 21-year-old college student under the name ‘Carlos Danger’. Carlos. Danger.
Because of all this, we now have Weiner: a surreal and cringeworthy movie documenting the unfortunately-named congressman’s downfall and various attempts at political recovery. The film is written and directed by one of his political staffers who saw it all unfold.
Weiner premiered earlier this year on the international film festival circuit and took out the top prize for a documentary at Sundance. In a thorough run-down of the film’s best bits, Vulture’s Jada Yuan reports the film opens on Weiner saying “Shiiiiiittttttt, this is the worst” and at one point includes an official escape plan in which he runs away from a woman he’s sexted (nicknamed ‘Pineapple’) through the back door of a McDonalds.
If that makes you feel a little smug about how ridiculous US politics can be, please take a moment to remember that one of our politicians once sexted someone while inexplicably dipping his dick in a glass of red wine. We’re all doomed.
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Weiner will premiere at the Sydney Film Festival this June.