Teaser trailer for Musk, a 3h45m-long documentary film on fascist businessman Elon Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. “He’s chaotic, random, capricious. He is manifestly cruel and selfish. In a science fiction novel, he would not be a hero.”
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Teaser trailer for Musk, a 3h45m-long documentary film on fascist businessman Elon Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. “He’s chaotic, random, capricious. He is manifestly cruel and selfish. In a science fiction novel, he would not be a hero.”
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Yikes! I am so done with that man, I don’t know who, but Elon sycophants would want to sit through nearly 4 hours of Musk content. As “unflinching” as it gets, my moments to hours to days improve with zero Elon mentions. That is too long. The trailer was good tho.
I don’t envy people trying to expose and define people like Trump and Musk. We see time and again that the world has changed and that saying “This man is cruel” just makes their supporters say “Good! Those idiots he was ‘cruel’ to are losers.”
But I’m sad to see a trailer like this. I have the completely uneducated feeling that when you use the medium and messages of Hollywood and explosions and drama and adventure to speak to this kind of topic, all you do is give his supporters 90% of a meal they know they already like. Saying “He wouldn’t be the hero in a superhero movie” after opening with quotes about how he’s amazing and playing that music and showing rockets and fire and explosions — that’s just surrounding his name with awesome things and then saying “But ignore all that, ignore your adrenaline, ignore the century of culture that have told your body and brain to react to these images and sounds, just listen to the words at the end that said ‘But not all that’.”
Maybe the full film will be different, but I think that trailer undermines any attempt to make a serious point.
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