Too Close to the Truth

Rating: 10/10 (14 February 2016)

We need more movies like this--but they're not going to show up any time soon. I've started a little funky business from scratch using next-to-no money and plenty of "sweat equity." It's a nightmare. Every new business is subjected to "running the gauntlet" of predators and parasites who live to infect, sicken and destroy new businesses.
It's not fashionable to talk about it, but the hazards that Joy faces in this film ARE NOT peculiar, rare or unlikely. They are TYPICAL of the kinds of problems encountered by anyone trying to start a business who doesn't have plenty of muscle--and by that I mean "pull" at city hall or elsewhere that allows you to push back when the parasites start to sink in their claws.
But most small businesses are started by people who are not business experts and don't have "pull"--they are like baby turtles trying to reach the ocean and being eaten by birds, snakes, crabs, sharks and every other animal on the beach. Joy's trials are the type that usually prove fatal or near-fatal to newcomers to the business world. It's a jungle out there--and that's a fact.
We need more films like this so I'm giving it a 10.