Musk

shookone4.0

I was quite a bit turned off beforehand as I've seen a couple of Gibney's works and didn't particularly like his style. do you really want to sit through 4 hours of the portrait of the - given his power - currently most terrible man on our planet? let me tell you: Yes, you want!turns out Alex Gibney's tabloid-sleazy yellow paper shenanigans are just what the doctor ordered for the total madness coming along with every Incel dream's tech bro warrior, what he represents & how he embodies the hegemonic ideology. it's a non stop "bam bam" laser pointer attack that gets you a neatly packaged bouquet of the many aspects the man's monstrosity is shaped of. if you're familiar with his game (hence, if you follow the news) you'll see many facts you'll have heard before, giving you maybe the possibility to dive deeper into, but surely not revealing anything breathtakingly new. and why should Gibney? it's all there on the open anyway. Musk has most of his stuff put out there, not caring, or simply not being able to control the narrative anymore (the love life, relationships, "legion" of his kids getting ready for the civil war etc). I mean even his severe drug abuse is well documented by now. I personally would have loved a proper psychoanalysis of this guy. something - this is my strong personal believe - that could help understand better the current mayhem we're facing. but of course no one dares this nowadays (be it legally or "ethically"... big lol), so we're stuck with the obvious histrionics that are openly visible on the surface. and honestly, this should be enough for anyone to make their conclusions in what a hilarious mess we're stuck in right now. This film is the absolute epitome of the phenomenon of doomscrolling. I had a scary fucking blast./// Venezia 83 ///

Sarah (just2good)3.5

In line with other Alex Gibney documentaries, a deserved attack on Musk. Even at four hours it manages to be consistently engaging. This focuses on Musk’s adult life, how he took over Tesla, further destroyed America, his work with SpaceX, and his familial relationships. I found it interesting we really don’t hear much about his early life but I think the brief exploration of how his father raised him was enough.There’s an interesting framing of subbing in a strange AI CG’ed Musk since he didn’t want to participate in the documentary, which oddly worked even if it’s not necessary, a very fitting spit-in-the-face use of AI. This will understandably be something that will lose a lot of people. His voice is AI’ed using clips from hundreds of his interviews.Most of the film uses archival footage, which kept things interesting visually even if there’s plenty of fresh talking head interviews. There’s some animated sequences as if they’re from a video game - which, even if they’re like a boomer’s interpretation of what games are like, were still fun, mostly due to the pairing with Daniel Pemberton’s score. My favorite technical aspect of the film is that electronic score, which had a couple of bangers.-1 point for not exploring Elon Musk’s attempts to assimilate into the babyfur community

Weronika

he’s obviously a fucking loser but did we need a doc on him that keeps using an AI avatar of Elon Musk that’s trained on his quotes and looks like dogshit?