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This doc absolutely deserves to win Best Picture this year. A doc nomination would be a first (and there's a best doc category), but there's no rule against it.
by defterGoose 6y ago
This doc absolutely deserves to win Best Picture this year. A doc nomination would be a first (and there's a best doc category), but there's no rule against it. It is an absolutely transcendent piece of narrative; so much more captivating than most fantastical things a great writer could conceive. It deftly trumps the best narrative-cum-reality of the type that Herzog regularly delivers.
(If Black Panther can get a nomination, and this can't, I will consider the Academy a truly dead institution.)
- swyx 6y agowhoa hold on there horsie. its a good documentary, but it is just that, one man's hobby project, extremely well shot. i found it a little too indulgent and not that enlightening. i dont know what the other Best Picture candidates are, but i typically like a lil more creativity and plot in my films.
- defterGoose 6y ago"A little too indulgent and not that enlightening" is how I would characterize every Tarantino movie...but I digress. In regards to creativity, the acts of exploration and cartography the guy undertakes are about as "creative" as it comes. And with regards to plot, I find it pretty incredible that the whole plot was cogent, given that about half of it was written by an octopus. As they say, the truth is stranger than fiction. No one knows what the other nominees would be, I'm just saying this deserves to be one of them, and would also be deserving of a win.