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The Invisible Pilot (2022)
About as invisible as the million pounds of cocaine that he smuggled
I won't spoil the details here if you haven't heard about this story before, just a couple of benign broad strokes.
Selfish and grandiose man justifies smuggling drugs, names players in government scandal, shows again how dirty our government is all the way to the top regardless of party affiliation by being involved in organized crime for money and self advancement...shocker. Oh and did I mention he abandoned his family in many nefarious ways? Ha. So, unless you're really young or had lived under a rock...we've seen it and heard this story for a lifetime, those before me, mine and yours.
To the pilot, wherever you are, you broke the law. You deserved jail time and to have to look at how your poor children suffered because of your abrupt and total abandonment. The mother of two is not innocent and no one in this was remorseful. I think they were confused about the MeToo movement...I'll clear it up...it doesn't mean, they got off scot free, so pardon me too.
For those who don't know a lot about the drug trades or the Iran-Contra political and humanitarian crimes, it helps fill in some interesting gaps which are referenced in many movies, documentaries, books, magazines and news reels.
77 Minutes (2016)
Director is the worst
Terrible editing, adds a lot of footage no one ever needed to view and was touted up as respectful to victims and survivors and their families while systematically building a theme of blaming police. I'm not a fan of the policing systems in our country or political overshadowing and systemic bias but I'm less a fan of this moronic and egotistical director getting his face in every half fiction documentary he puts out. Who is backing this idiot? This was a hatchet job that had less to do with the tragedy and any healing process than it did with one singular agenda. Gross manipulation of the town, its people and the victims. He should donate every penny he's spending on himself to the people who had to endure their pain for his gain.
49 Pulses (2017)
Good victim stories, bad director/producer
Always good to see that our most tragic events are not forgotten and that victims names are uplifted and remembered without saying the criminals name and unfortunately that's where the accolades end. The director/producer who also acts as interviewer is always ridiculous with the questions and his personal bias in his "documentaries" without offering a panel of valid solutions for preventative measures or improvements. Although I tried to get through more history lessons on tragedy by trolling Minns collection, I can't stomach anymore of him being on camera or behind it. Asking victims or survivors what they would say to the deceased is a shameless effort to trigger tears and drama, when most of these are mass shootings, why do you need to add to that horror? Everyone replies with something like that is a good question, people say that because they are overwhelmed by such a big question and thought process while already grieving loved ones and doing the interview in the first place. Minn's motives are clear, to exploit tragedy for money while placing blame on government. How original and also tells the audience that he doesn't believe we are smart enough to find the errors made in each tragedy. While law enforcement and policies certainly have issues, if Minn want everyone else to be held to a gold standard, allow me to hold him to one very important one, because instead of pushing his own agenda he could actually provide all the details and forward thinking pathways, by experts, not by him.
The definition of documentary is as follows
broadly : FACTUAL, OBJECTIVE.
1 being or consisting of documents : contained or certified in writing
documentary evidence
2 of, relating to, or employing documentation in.
Hollywood needs to push you out of this business. Reviewer out.
Finding Andrea (2021)
The interviewer is awful and it's disjointed
There is an "interviewer" in a mask shown in the starting scenes who is clearly in the wrong job and lacks the proper skill sets to be interviewing people. Asks pointless questions and no understanding of appropriate or tactful human interaction. This continues in other scenes. Overall I found the story to not follow a logical order or leave a meaningful impression on an audience. I had to turn it off, it's just hard to watch and that's not because of the nature of the documentary. It's disappointing that we cannot get better coverage for missing persons, murders, and other major crimes, and this one just missed its chance to be impactful.
D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! (2022)
Well done yet frustrating
The frustration lies strictly with the fact that our government would piece meal records, 500 pieces of paper per month to drag out a 12 year long investigation in a time when we have the technology to sift through them quickly and efficiently. It's just like JFK records, for some reason they choose not to be honest or forthright all these decades later. Wonder what that reason could be....hmmmm. Always protecting something rather than providing justice or real answers to taxpayers. At this point in life people don't care about a prosecution for "DB Cooper". We just want to know who it was and why. 200k wasn't a lot of money split between 1 or more persons and I doubt only one person knew. The money was for a purpose. This documentary lays out some great theories and perhaps some excellent circumstantial evidence. Will we ever really know?
Harry & Meghan (2022)
A lesson for everyone to carve out your joyous life
Every family can be toxic and finding your own path is painful. Living in a giant spotlight while doing that would be extreme. Diana would be so proud of her son for breaking the pattern of control, toxicity and suffocation of the life these people were living. I envy no one in the royal family and I may not have much but I have freedom, love and joys and can enjoy them without constant pressure and people controlling me. Families don't take kindly to their own members walking away or saying they don't agree with the big agenda....the royals are not any different. I recall watching the night Diana was killed and in the months following, we all know what happened and continued to happen and we know what was expected of her children. Be happy that one of them is free and can smile a real smile now and live a free life. Her life was not a total loss if her child was salvaged. Now let's just hope the other child can come out of the bubble and be himself as well. Who says you can't be king if you're not a normal person....look at the morons the U. S. and every other country elects to every post. We are all people, quirks and all. Lay off these two and their children. They have had their say finally while everyone else talked about them for years and they stayed silent. Everyone deserves the right to have their say and be heard. This program was well done in that it told their story in their words and frankly was both sad and happy to watch. Although a touch over produced, it had real emotion and it was great to hear their points of view. Some may feel that they are fighting back or trying to tear down the establishment, but I see and hear a family that has hurt one another and now all have had their day. I vote for leaving them all alone now to live their lives in peace and like all families we hope that someday reconciliation is possible and if it's not, well then I am sure the press will harp on it for another 50 years.