{"id":4593,"date":"2016-05-28T08:35:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T03:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4593"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:39:30","slug":"knock-down-house-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-rachel-lears-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4593","title":{"rendered":"Knock Down the House Isn\u2019t About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alone. It\u2019s a Roadmap for a Political System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>n the opening sequence of Rachel Lears\u2019 <\/p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knock Down the House<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez \u2013 one of its four protagonists \u2013 stands in front of a mirror with a beauty blender in her hand, getting ready for a public appearance. Her dimple peeks out as she smiles at the camera, and then continues dabbing her <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/first-person\/acne-face-health-scars-medicine-battle\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">face<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cFor women, it involves so many decisions about how you\u2019re gonna present yourself to the world,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez argues, noting that male candidates rarely have to worry about maintaining an image, given that there\u2019s already a standard protocol for how \u201ca man running for office\u201d should dress. They have two looks, she states: One with a suit and one with rolled-up sleeves. (Several minutes into the documentary, the camera cheekily focuses on Joe Crowley, Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s opponent, rolling up his sleeves while debating her.)<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a sensational moment that gains from the director\u2019s empathetic female gaze, underlining at once, the double standards that women candidates have to routinely wrestle with, and the amount of effort that goes behind living upto the male-approved version of \u201cpresentable\u201d. But look between the lines, and this scene becomes all the more revealing for it conveys an essential truth: There\u2019s no standard protocol for how women politicians should dress because there has never been enough women in politics. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knock Down the House<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an arresting documentary that shadows the six-month-long grassroots campaign of four insurgent women <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/politicians-love-indian-netas-relationship-advice\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">politicians<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who challenged incumbent Democratic candidates in the 2018 primary elections, attempts to examine that void. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the main challenges of translating an election race into a gripping documentary is retaining the urgency and relevancy of the fight in a future that has moved past its ingenuity. Yet, less than a year since the primary elections, it\u2019s something <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knock Down the House<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> manages to convey effortlessly. Despite the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/why-its-game-over-for-game-of-thrones-and-me\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">predictability<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of its climax, the documentary doesn\u2019t just live in the past but moulds itself very much into the present: Every frame is haunted by what is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">still<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at stake. It takes a familiar template of man vs system and adeptly redefines it: <em>Knock Down the House<\/em>, is at once, an underdog tragedy and triumph.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Lears zeroed in on the four <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/culture\/half-girlfriend-complete-moron-the-anatomy-of-a-chetan-bhagat-heroine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">protagonists<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and started shooting in January last year, they had no idea that a win was in the offing for Ocasio-Cortez, a neophyte in the murky world of American politics. It is to the director\u2019s credit that the essence of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knock Down the House<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> doesn\u2019t depend on Ocasio-Cortez becoming a Congresswoman, either. Instead, the 87-minute-long film concerns itself with being a record of the unfathomable struggle of \u201cgetting everyday Americans represented by everyday Americans\u201d and the near lack of space that the nation\u2019s politics reserves for women. It\u2019s why the documentary would have been as powerful and timely had she lost \u2013 Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s win is merely, a silver lining; a testament to the all-American success story. <\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Instead, the 87-minute-long film concerns itself with being a record of the unfathomable struggle of \u201cgetting everyday Americans represented by everyday Americans\u201d .<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most striking part of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knock Down the House<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> then, is its ability to provide a snapshot of the inaccessibility of power in the American <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/this-election-not-time-to-be-fence-sitter\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">democracy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Lears \u2013 with ample help from husband Robin Blotnick, who edited the documentary \u2013 mines Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s evocative origin story and her eventual win to contextualise the sacrifices of the numerous women who get left behind, defeated by the system that is meant to keep them at bay.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides Occasio-Cortez, a Bronx <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/a-petition-to-cancel-open-bars-at-indian-weddings\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bartender<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who becomes Crowley\u2019s first challenger in 14 years, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knock Down the House <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">follows Cori Bush, a black nurse who lives six minutes from Fergusson, running from Missouri and Paula Jean Swearengin, a coal miner\u2019s daughter contesting from West Virginia who can point to the houses in her Coal City neighbourhood that have a family member suffering from cancer, in her sleep. And contesting from Nevada is Amy Vilella, a single mother who is propelled into action after her 22-year-old daughter died when a hospital turned her away for not having health insurance.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For these four women candidates, the personal is political: They refuse corporate donations and back the needs of the working class, bound together by their shared desire to re-imagine the election process. Lears\u2019 takes us into their intimate lives with the kind of sensitivity that doesn\u2019t exploit their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/amritsar-kolkata-train-accident-indian-railways\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tragedies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We see the cold calls they make for $100 donations, the balmy afternoons they spend going door to door to talk to voters, and their continuous struggle to be taken seriously. For instance, Crowley funds the election campaign for Vilella\u2019s opponent in a move that proves damaging for her, and doesn\u2019t deem it important to show up for a community forum where he is meant to debate Ocasio-Cortez. Instead, he sends a proxy on his behalf.<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48840\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1557134333.jpg\" alt=\"alexandria\" width=\"611\" height=\"407\" \/>\n\n<b>Image credit: Netflix, Inc.<\/b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It doesn\u2019t take a genius to discern that despite the impressively controlled campaigns of the four women run, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">their fate in the elections will inevitably be tipped against them.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> After one of the more devastating <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/could-jet-airways-ruin-your-summer-holiday-plans\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">losses<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that results in Vilella breaking into tears, it\u2019s Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s voice that comforts her over the phone. \u201cIt\u2019s just the reality that for one of us to make it through, a hundred of us have to try,\u201d she reminds Vilella. Ocasio-Cortez might be the one who made it through but <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knock Down the House <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">elevates itself by existing foremost as a record of the others who had to fail for her to succeed. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most political documentaries tend to take shape only when there is some semblance of clarity: Either they replicate an epoch-making moment years after it occurred as an exercise in rememberance or choose to profile individual retroactive <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/rahul-gandhi-congress-minimum-income-general-elections-2019\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">glory<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In both cases, the focus is almost always on the destination; on that clinching moment of triumph. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knock Down the House<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> stands out for being that rare documentary that prioritises the journey over the destination \u2013 capturing the indefatigable spirit of change as it unfolds in real time. It is then, neither an exercise in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/culture\/library-e-books-social-media-nostalgia\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nostalgia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> nor an evidence of fan service. Through the eyes of its four women instead, it offers a roadmap for an alternative: a political system that is designed to serve people, not rule over them.<\/span>\n\n\u00a0\n\n<em>(Knock Down the House is streaming on Netflix)<\/em>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s more to Netflix\u2019s Knock Down the House than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her journey to becoming a Congresswoman. 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