This is a film about life, death, documentaries, social contracts, legal contracts, and questioning all of them.
The Amazing Jonathan is in this film, and is central to the film, but is not ultimately the actual subject of the film. I'd argue this is really a film about the human condition (and a meta commentary on documentaries).
If you want a standard bio pic, go check out "Always Amazing" on YouTube. That's not what you're going to get here.
This film is far from perfect. A lot hinges on the bizarre turns in the story.
At a certain point, I started questioning if the documentary itself was making things up. Was the director editing the film in such a way to portray a story instead of the "real" story? What even is "real" or "fake" when ultimately a documentary is filtered, ultimately, through the lens of one or more other human perspectives?
This film was, at the least, thought provoking.
There's some laugh out loud moments, some tear jerkers, and all around weirdness.
In that sense, it connected with the Amazing Jonathan even if it's not what I went in expecting.
The Amazing Jonathan is in this film, and is central to the film, but is not ultimately the actual subject of the film. I'd argue this is really a film about the human condition (and a meta commentary on documentaries).
If you want a standard bio pic, go check out "Always Amazing" on YouTube. That's not what you're going to get here.
This film is far from perfect. A lot hinges on the bizarre turns in the story.
At a certain point, I started questioning if the documentary itself was making things up. Was the director editing the film in such a way to portray a story instead of the "real" story? What even is "real" or "fake" when ultimately a documentary is filtered, ultimately, through the lens of one or more other human perspectives?
This film was, at the least, thought provoking.
There's some laugh out loud moments, some tear jerkers, and all around weirdness.
In that sense, it connected with the Amazing Jonathan even if it's not what I went in expecting.