It's a weird doc. If you remember the 2010's you will remember this creepy personal style being super popular. Digital cameras made it possible to record everything you saw and it made many creative people try this extremely personal style where close up shots of people were normal.
Alex Gibney is a documentary maker who makes 2 kind of docs: anti-Republican and pro-Democrat. This one is both of course which makes it so much more weird. In his many anti-Trump docs you at least understand what he is complaining about. Most of the complaints are very overblown and often unfair, but you see where Trump screwed up or didn't take charge. There is a logic to the claims made.
Here Alex Gibney has his usual left-wing bias with Eliot Spitzer the Democrat being the hero. Hopefully the first Jewish president ever! A New York hero who was fighting corruption while the evil GOPs tried to stop him at every step. That's the main issue with the doc. I'm kinda sold on some of these points and do feel it can be true in some way. Unfortunately for Alex Gibney Eliot Spitzer is not quite the hero he thinks he is. He looks and sounds sleazy even in this doc. Every time someone besides himself has to describe him he is clearly made out to be sleazy, aggressive, sex addicted, creepy. The doc tries to present a witch hunt on a heroic Democrat. Instead it presents a witch hunt on a giant creep who cheated on his wife.
It reminds me of another Jewish Democrat New York politician who was supposed to become president too, Anthony Weiner. There is an interesting doc about him too. He too was "fighting corruption" and "being a good guy". But to me, as someone who hates both parties, he too is just an arrogant power-hungry, sex addict creep.
Understand what you get here. All Alex Gibney docs are very anti-Republican. In this one this biased message is forced so you may feel it's too eerie a doc trying to manipulate you. True enough, but to me it's just still a fun doc. Alex Gibney may not be smart or fair. But he is damn good at entertaining viewers. This is a ton of fun even though you do feel like the doc is taking you for a fool.
Alex Gibney is a documentary maker who makes 2 kind of docs: anti-Republican and pro-Democrat. This one is both of course which makes it so much more weird. In his many anti-Trump docs you at least understand what he is complaining about. Most of the complaints are very overblown and often unfair, but you see where Trump screwed up or didn't take charge. There is a logic to the claims made.
Here Alex Gibney has his usual left-wing bias with Eliot Spitzer the Democrat being the hero. Hopefully the first Jewish president ever! A New York hero who was fighting corruption while the evil GOPs tried to stop him at every step. That's the main issue with the doc. I'm kinda sold on some of these points and do feel it can be true in some way. Unfortunately for Alex Gibney Eliot Spitzer is not quite the hero he thinks he is. He looks and sounds sleazy even in this doc. Every time someone besides himself has to describe him he is clearly made out to be sleazy, aggressive, sex addicted, creepy. The doc tries to present a witch hunt on a heroic Democrat. Instead it presents a witch hunt on a giant creep who cheated on his wife.
It reminds me of another Jewish Democrat New York politician who was supposed to become president too, Anthony Weiner. There is an interesting doc about him too. He too was "fighting corruption" and "being a good guy". But to me, as someone who hates both parties, he too is just an arrogant power-hungry, sex addict creep.
Understand what you get here. All Alex Gibney docs are very anti-Republican. In this one this biased message is forced so you may feel it's too eerie a doc trying to manipulate you. True enough, but to me it's just still a fun doc. Alex Gibney may not be smart or fair. But he is damn good at entertaining viewers. This is a ton of fun even though you do feel like the doc is taking you for a fool.