4/29/2023 0 Comments Icarus movie![]() ![]() It was politicized when the film never really cared to explore doping itself all too much and the causes of why sportsmen would even do that. That part I did not like as it was obviously anti- Russian and it took too much time from the actual issue. The other movie we have here is the second half which is basically a geopolitical thriller. However, I liked that he was humanized and he definitely is the driving force of this film and its most interesting part. The film is naturally very reminiscent of ‘Citizenfour’ in following whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov and is thus not particularly original. The first movie we have here is the doping part which is the entire first half where the director himself tries to do that and see the benefits and the potential side effects. It is obvious that the filmmakers had two fascinating stories here and they should have made two movies out of them, but by mixing them into one, the end result felt very incoherent and uneven. Icarus is basically two movies put together into one incoherent whole. What I am going to comment upon is the film’s own technical problems and its own negatives as well as positives. However, I did not find the film as Russophobic as it could have been and this is a very difficult subject matter so I am not going to blame the film for spreading potential hate as I do find its intentions to be positive. It is obvious that the film is one-sided and an attempt to blame only Russia when literally every country is to blame in at least some capacity. Now the film obviously deals with a very important subject matter which is also very difficult to assess. The film explores doping and it particularly is concerned with the Russian doping scandal. I was doing in parallel two things which cancelled outĮach other and being fully contradictory. “Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ ![]() It is a solid, but deeply flawed film which didn’t deserve its Oscar in my opinion. Icarus is a 2017 documentary film directed by Bryan Fogel. ![]()
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