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This had the potential to be interesting but couldn't decide what it wanted to do.
Was it about the trial per se?
Was it about responses to the trial at the time?
Was it about responses in the fifty years since the trial?
Was it about Nazi'ism generally?
This is why I call it documentary slop. It was various old footage, loosely edited and interleaved, but with no strong opinion about anything (opinions cost money!)
About 2/3 (the actual trial footage) is interesting though, as always, one fears that the editing may have had an agenda, even if the agenda was "this is boring, that's not". The other 1/3 is utterly uninteresting main-in-the-street responses to the trial.
Very little here you won't already know if you have even the slightest awareness of the phrase "the banality of evil". And very little here in the trial machinations and details that you didn't already know.
Was it about the trial per se?
Was it about responses to the trial at the time?
Was it about responses in the fifty years since the trial?
Was it about Nazi'ism generally?
This is why I call it documentary slop. It was various old footage, loosely edited and interleaved, but with no strong opinion about anything (opinions cost money!)
About 2/3 (the actual trial footage) is interesting though, as always, one fears that the editing may have had an agenda, even if the agenda was "this is boring, that's not". The other 1/3 is utterly uninteresting main-in-the-street responses to the trial.
Very little here you won't already know if you have even the slightest awareness of the phrase "the banality of evil". And very little here in the trial machinations and details that you didn't already know.
Hard to watch this, or comment, without coming across as a jerk.
But honestly, to everyone involved, WTF did you THINK was going to happen?
From minute one, it was clear to me that this guy was an utter tool. Not even a smart sociopath who had figured out a useful line of BS, but even worse, someone with such a facile view of the world that he believed his own BS. OBVIOUSLY if a company spouts you a line of woo, you run away screaming! Triply so if his wife is in the background spouting even crazier woo. And yet he managed to get not only a long list of employees and customers believing the BS but even (for a period) Masayoshi Son!
Theranos, Enron, Sam Bankman-Fried. All might be criminals, or at least incompetent/unlucky at the game they chose to play. But at least I can respect their strengths and feel that, under different circumstances, they might have contributed positively to humanity. But this budget L Ron Hubbard? Give me a break.
OK, so let's talk the documentary itself. I can't give it a high rating because it feels to me like there has to have been more to the story than just what's presented. Was this truly nothing but a story of a bunch of confused and stupid 20-somethings believing whatever nonsense they were told? Or was there a real competence to Neumann in terms of choosing real estate or suchlike, something that could have taken him far if he'd structured the company based on finance rather than harmonic vibrations? I'd like to have seen more than just Adam the Cult Leader. (Or at least proof that there *was* nothing more than Adam the Cult Leader.)
But honestly, to everyone involved, WTF did you THINK was going to happen?
From minute one, it was clear to me that this guy was an utter tool. Not even a smart sociopath who had figured out a useful line of BS, but even worse, someone with such a facile view of the world that he believed his own BS. OBVIOUSLY if a company spouts you a line of woo, you run away screaming! Triply so if his wife is in the background spouting even crazier woo. And yet he managed to get not only a long list of employees and customers believing the BS but even (for a period) Masayoshi Son!
Theranos, Enron, Sam Bankman-Fried. All might be criminals, or at least incompetent/unlucky at the game they chose to play. But at least I can respect their strengths and feel that, under different circumstances, they might have contributed positively to humanity. But this budget L Ron Hubbard? Give me a break.
OK, so let's talk the documentary itself. I can't give it a high rating because it feels to me like there has to have been more to the story than just what's presented. Was this truly nothing but a story of a bunch of confused and stupid 20-somethings believing whatever nonsense they were told? Or was there a real competence to Neumann in terms of choosing real estate or suchlike, something that could have taken him far if he'd structured the company based on finance rather than harmonic vibrations? I'd like to have seen more than just Adam the Cult Leader. (Or at least proof that there *was* nothing more than Adam the Cult Leader.)