Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem

I was no fan of Rob as our Mayor. It was a circus our city did not deserve. But watching this documentary allowed me to see the human side of him and the tragedy that it was. Many of us are like Rob. Survivors of childhood trauma. This is the example of what happens if you don't deal with it. I feel sad for him that he had to live it out so publicly. May he rest in peace. I heard Doug say he had no intentions of watching this, but I think he should. I think this was done very fairly and balanced. And may anybody who's walking in similar footsteps to Rob Ford find a pathway to healing and treatment they so deserve.

Trying to portray a reckless and egotistic privileged white cis-man, as a "people´s person" - especially in times like these, where this kind of dudes have brought us to the brink of WW III/selfextinction - is just cynical and harmful. The people of this production company should ask themselves if the money they got out of this, is worth to push further in destroying democratic values and structures. He was unfit to be a "public servant"/politician from the very begining and the only reason he even got this far, is that enough people/dudes are still profiting from this capitalist-patriarchal system.

Every person has their "good sides" and/or their loved ones, that will speak fond of them. This doesn´t make up for harmful, discriminative behavour, for nepotism, for dishonesty, for corruption and many other things when it comes to politics or any other position of responsibility. "Oh, he couldn´t even care for himself, but he was a fun guy with daddy-issues (and addiction-problems), so he must have been able to handle a high political position - infact he was the best choice for it. Because he was a "'fighter" and a people´s person." this is what this "documentary" tries to sell and I´m not buying it.

Yes, it showes a lot of the scandal and negative. However, don't just look at the surface, but dig deep and think about it: Ford was a very dedicated human being, who truly cared about people in his city, and like all people he had his struggles. Faced with challenges and scandals he really did the best he could in a very demanding role under very challenging circumstances. I always admired Ford for his brash and off-the-wall style, and I think this reaffirmed for me how people like to stigmatize people with mental health and substance use challenges. But often we are too quick to judge without looking at ourselves and realizing our humanity.

This Trainwreck documentary does a very wonderful job of showcasing the struggles that Robert Ford had to go through in order to confront the scandalous situations he found himself caught in.

But frankly, I feel like it should have taken more time to talk about his policies and his ACTUAL work as a politician since he is a politician at the end of the day. We only got to see a glimpse of that here.

Maybe another area the documentary could have tackled on was how these compromising videos were caught on camera in the first place. It happened too many times, there has got to be a reason of some sort, was it perhaps because he had bad friends or something like that? This movie certainly won't give you the answer.

I think this could of been a bit more condensed, slightly dragged on near the end, I mean there was the sneak peek at the begining that this was going to be a drug problem based documentry and that was his major secret. I read some other reviews that were 1 star about how documenting about someone drug problem is not entertainment and I can agree with that. I am glad he got help, and I dont know quite what he did, politically that was bad just that his drug and drinking problem was not good and it may of not been good entering a party for the military drugged up. At least he ended up getting help and focused on himself. I like the way he campaigned for the people, helping everyone with any problem that is a good basis.

I like how they related his media criminalizing tactic like Donald Trum.p at some points.