Treacle-A This a great little movie with everything an excellent documentary needs; pathos, drama, tragedy and humour. Anthony Baxter comes across as a very sympathetic and empathetic filmmaker who gets to know the subjects of him film - the residents of Balmedie - very well and obviously gains their trust and friendship.The theme - ordinary people being steamrollered by corporate greed - is a classic one, and as the central figure of Trump so typifies the careless, thoughtless greed of corporate America it makes for one hell of a drama. Great film. Well worth watching. And look out for the sequel!

gregsy21 I have lived in Aberdeenshire all my life. My father and mother have both lived in Aberdeenshire all their lives as well as at least my previous 4 generations as that is as far back as my parents have traced. I remember going to those sand dunes many times when i was younger and i might have actually been living very close to the course if my parents hadn't opted to move to a different house in Aberdeenshire. When plans to build the course came about i didn't know who Donald Trump was very well and all i heard about it was a few newspaper headlines which said it would bring jobs so i thought " that is fine if they want to build it, i haven't been to the dunes in the last couple of years". However, i recently watched this documentary in geography at school. It opened my eyes to so many things such as : how the police can be biased, how little the "big" people care about the "small" people and how bad an effect it has had on the environment. I also found it hard to believe anyone in their right mind could actually mean what Trump says. There is not a doubt in my mind that the course should not have been built. I found it extremely hard to give my favourite movie "The Shawshank Redemption" 10 stars but this, my new favourite film, easily warranted a 10 star rating. You must watch it.

Larry Silverstein This documentary, directed by Anthony Baxter, is a scathing indictment of Donald Trump and his organization's tactics. It's a modern day David vs. Goliath tale. as it follows the attempts by Trump to build a $1 billion project, consisting of a luxury hotel and two golf courses along the coastline of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.The land there is particularly environmentally sensitive, with one of the last bastions of natural sand dunes in the British Isles, as well as the home to various wildlife. He meets the opposition of a number of long time residents of the area who refuse to sell their land for the project.A local politician, Martin Ford, leads a committee of the local council, which rejects the Trump project. However, for apparently the first time in history, the central Scottish Government, pulls the approval process from local hands and gives it a green light. Additionally, it may issue Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPO's) vs. those residents who refuse to sell, similar to our eminent domain.Once construction started, the documentary illustrates the abominable tactics used by the Trump Organization against the Scottish holdouts. These include harassment, intimidation, personal verbal assaults by Trump against Michael Forbes, one of the landowners, breaking a water well which left Forbes' without water for at least a week, etc. etc.When the filmmaker, Anthony Baxter, tried to confront one of the Trump site managers regarding the water situation, he was not only rudely dismissed but later arrested by the local police and held for four hours. Another local resident, David Milne, had a fence arbitrarily torn down by the Trump minions, with the claim that their maps said it was on property they had purchased. They also had the gall to later bill Milne over 2800 pounds to erect a new fence.As opposition to Trump's hotel and golf courses grew, there was talk of erecting a large wind farm right off the coastline. I saw that in March of this year, the wind farm was approved by the Scottish government, leading Trump to threaten to sue in court and abandon the project, as he felt the view of the hotel guests would be ruined.All in all, I thought the film was a little slow-paced and some of the Scottish "accents" were sometimes difficult to understand, but the scope of the movie greatly outweighed everything else. Personally, I felt my "blood boil" at some of the tactics used on these homeowners. If one feels the film is too one-sided, Trump was given numerous chances to give his side of the story but ignored all requests for over a year.

marathon_man I've been following developments on this blight on the landscape from the beginning. Scotland has more than enough golf courses and not one of them is more beautiful than the natural landscape it replaces. Scotland may be the home of golf but that doesn't mean it should be covered in courses.Trump cares only about money (hey, he's a hugely successful businessman) and has no concept of other people's right to feel differently from himself. His comments about the residents, in particular his vitriolic description of Michael Forbes and his property (which looks no more an eyesore than any working farmland) are vile and despicable. The man is so out of touch with what Scotland wants and is so ignorant about the country that he actually thinks his course will be on the west coast! If he had his way though, it would probably stretch between both coasts.It's always quite sickening to see sycophantic pandering to guests on chat shows at the best of times, but to witness David Letterman's fawning and ignorance (no doubt down to zero research and not wanting to risk the sensitive Mr Trump - after all, he could be a future President!) was cringe-worthy.Michael Forbes comes across as a decent, down-to-earth individual, not the near-Neanderthal Trump would have you believe him to be. In fact, he is clearly quite eloquent for a "simple" out-of-towner.To lose such a unique and significant Site of Scientific Interest all to help line the pockets of Trump is shameful in the extreme, and the Scottish Government should hang it's head for bowing to this megalomaniac of the business world. They also appear to have highly influenced the Police handling of the situation. I'm not one to shout "Police state" or "1984" but it's hard not to feel Grampian Police are failing in their remit to protect the public's interests.It's already an emotive issue but the documentary was very moving and had me switching from anger to disbelief and not so very far from tears, partly due to my love of Scotland and also to the human spirit on show in defiance of Trump's continued empire building.