An interesting scandal, and a confusing outcome legally. The documentary was well made and the interviews were relevant.
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Whose side are you on?
Calicodreamin10 October 2021
No matter what, the bad guys always win
Agent1018 October 2021
When it comes to sports, there is rarely a thing called justice. The only time justice was really served was the saga of Southern Methodist University. They suffered a two year ban in football for justifiable rules infractions and since then, the program has been irrelevant and in disarray. If anything, that shows a real downfall when you break the rules. Since then, every thing has toothless and fickle consequences. Just look at this scandal.
Despite the evidence, despite the conspiracy and despite the questionable morals of those involved...how could there be no real consequences. Sure, Juventus suffered for a couple years but that period is just a small blip of unjustified "us against the world" mentality that I am sure every Juve fan adheres to. Luciano Moggi sure didn't suffer, never spending a day in jail and still able to live in a palatial apartment while also claiming under vague legal terms that he is technically innocent. No, under Italy's strangely short statute of limitations, everyone pretty much got away.
Now I'm sure others will derive a different experience from this documentary, but the final 15 minutes was just a let down. It goes to show that cheating is an art form, and the true masters who have no morality will skirt the rules because society will always love the villain.
I don't know, this was a fascinating film but it was also quite stomach turning. Too much money was at stake for any real justice to be made. If anything, this keeps proving that money and justice have a very hand-in-hand, faithful marriage. Sad really, when that suspicion you have deep down in your heart is most likely telling you the truth.
Despite the evidence, despite the conspiracy and despite the questionable morals of those involved...how could there be no real consequences. Sure, Juventus suffered for a couple years but that period is just a small blip of unjustified "us against the world" mentality that I am sure every Juve fan adheres to. Luciano Moggi sure didn't suffer, never spending a day in jail and still able to live in a palatial apartment while also claiming under vague legal terms that he is technically innocent. No, under Italy's strangely short statute of limitations, everyone pretty much got away.
Now I'm sure others will derive a different experience from this documentary, but the final 15 minutes was just a let down. It goes to show that cheating is an art form, and the true masters who have no morality will skirt the rules because society will always love the villain.
I don't know, this was a fascinating film but it was also quite stomach turning. Too much money was at stake for any real justice to be made. If anything, this keeps proving that money and justice have a very hand-in-hand, faithful marriage. Sad really, when that suspicion you have deep down in your heart is most likely telling you the truth.
A fabulous watch.
Sleepin_Dragon12 October 2021
Being a huge football fan, this was by far the most interesting story of the series so far for me, the huge, earth shattering story of Moggi, and his influence over those in Italian football, events which helped Juventus take the title away from AC Milan.
Juve shouldn't have needed any help that year, look at the players they had, however events were tipped very much in their favour......however, were they crimes, or weds they just random events, this documentary will intrigue and baffle you, the outcome comes as a real surprise.
The interviews were fascinating, especially the shocking, and surprising one that came at the end.
Not football fans must appreciate that in Italy, football is probably the second biggest obsession after religion, it is phenomenally big out there, this shook the country to its core.
This was awesome, and perhaps the run inf time was better, there was more than just Football at okay here.
Fascinating, 9/10.
Juve shouldn't have needed any help that year, look at the players they had, however events were tipped very much in their favour......however, were they crimes, or weds they just random events, this documentary will intrigue and baffle you, the outcome comes as a real surprise.
The interviews were fascinating, especially the shocking, and surprising one that came at the end.
Not football fans must appreciate that in Italy, football is probably the second biggest obsession after religion, it is phenomenally big out there, this shook the country to its core.
This was awesome, and perhaps the run inf time was better, there was more than just Football at okay here.
Fascinating, 9/10.
Interesting story, terrible director
docbrown-311 January 2022
The story of the Italian football scandal is interesting enough and deserves to be included in this series. However the direction of this episode makes it all but unwatchable. The first issues is that it is almost all in Italian. I realize that some percentage of the episode needs to be interviews in Italian by the nature of the scandal, but for a series made for an English speaking market, there needed to be more narration in English. It feels like a foreign language film.
The second problem is the repeated, excessive and completely gratuitous shots of people smoking. The worst being a long slow shot of someone lighting a disgusting cigar and smoking it (and not talking) while a voice over of that person actually talking abut the scandal played. There were many other examples of this. I can only guess that the director was getting money on the side form a tobacco company. Sickening.
The second problem is the repeated, excessive and completely gratuitous shots of people smoking. The worst being a long slow shot of someone lighting a disgusting cigar and smoking it (and not talking) while a voice over of that person actually talking abut the scandal played. There were many other examples of this. I can only guess that the director was getting money on the side form a tobacco company. Sickening.
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