Musk review: Alex Gibney shows Elon, warts and all (mostly warts) - Roger Ebert

Director Alex Gibney warns of Elon Musk's 'unchecked power' in new documentaryOctober 15|Duration 8:25In an interview with CBC News, filmmaker Alex Gibney, the director of Musk, discusses Elon Musk's influence and concerns about his access to U. S. government data. Alex Gibney's nearly four-hour, fire-and-brimstone documentary Musk — about tech oligarch and the world's richest man Elon Musk — is not uplifting. Instead, it is one of the most depressing and terrifying pieces of public media since An Inconvenient Truth alerted a largely unaware public to its imminent annihilation by climate change. Unlike An Inconvenient Truth, Gibney's Musk does not appear to offer a hopeful final message about how we might get out of this mess. Instead, we get an outline of how, in Gibney's view, Musk rose from upstart entrepreneur to political arriviste who orchestrated the dismantling of USAID, then attempted to create a baby farm and commune to survive a supposed civil war. That is all before, we are to believe, he supposedly upended all of Western democracy.

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