2 reviews
An amazingly detailed and balanced look at the Rockefellers
- planktonrules
- Dec 2, 2011
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Intelligent and well made, if cold as the subjects
Well told and intelligent, the saga of the Rockefeller family is one of the great American stories. There was a lot of detail in this thorough documentary I had never known before. I was never bored despite the two parts running three and a half hours.
That said, it was somewhat lacking in emotion, as, apparently the Rockefellers were themselves at times. Unlike the story of the Kennedys or FDR, or others that American Experience have covered, it felt like a great history lesson, but not a powerful film.
That almost certainly is a comment on the subjects, not the film-making, and I'm glad they didn't try to force this cold, distant and strange bunch into artificially likability.
That said, it was somewhat lacking in emotion, as, apparently the Rockefellers were themselves at times. Unlike the story of the Kennedys or FDR, or others that American Experience have covered, it felt like a great history lesson, but not a powerful film.
That almost certainly is a comment on the subjects, not the film-making, and I'm glad they didn't try to force this cold, distant and strange bunch into artificially likability.
- runamokprods
- Nov 12, 2013
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