This documentary is quite effective and engaging thanks to its very interesting subject matter and a myriad of touching personal cases, which provide us with a wide range of nuances to a worrying situation while contrasting it to the other side with a poignant and accountable perspective. Particularly telling is the example, close to the end of the film, of the outcasted son who has to publicly confront the retrograde and discriminatory points of view of her mother.

While extremely clinical in its form, following the usual structure of mixing personal testimonies in front of the camera with archival footage setting up the scene, this example, as well as those of all the school librarians who tell their stories and how much these unwarranted attacks make them suffer, professionally and privately, make up for it.

While maybe too sparse, the added opinions from students, as well as the deeper dive, in a clear follow-the-money type of investigation, into the true political roots and ties of this repressive movement in American society, are welcomed.

On a more technical level, the choice to intertwine the current conflict with similar accounts of the past through the use of classic movies and series is the right call, considering the medium through which we are telling the story. On the other hand, the cheap, bad TV movie-type of music used as a score has quite a deflating effect in an otherwise compelling film.