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"Khodorkovsky" : It's okay to be rich as long as you don't sass Putin . . .

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This nearly two-hour documentary uses a mixed media approach to keep your attention focused on the Khodorkovsky/Yukos Affair. Through inside contacts and wheeler-dealer methods Khodorkovsky became the youngest multi-billionare on the planet. He was nearly the ordained Godfather of the oligarchs before forty and before getting on Putin's last nerve which was in the film.
This was an compelling and entertaining work with all the interviews from former government and Yukos executives inter-cut stark illustrations and spatial views of Siberia which is now his prison home.
Khodorkovsky is somewhat of an oddity in that Russians are taught he was a bad man yet naive enough to come home knowing what was about to happen to him making him something of an oligarch martyr.
I am completely neutral to the affairs of Russia's interior but I must say this documentary (which opens like a film) definitely leans in favor of the man still imprisoned in Siberia.
(Maybe he and Pussy Riot are partying?)

Edits: 11/25/12

Follow Ups:

Who cares? There's sale on 60" LCD's at Walmart. - Victor Khomenko 12:05:06 11/25/12 (8)
Seriously, grits - what is the audience for this film? Very few people care about what is happening in THIS country, far less care what is happening elsewhere, of them maybe 1% of those actually has the feel for what is really happening. This is as earth shattering as the discovery of one more character in ancient Egypt script. Most philistines will latch on the least important element - "from the ultra-rich to a prison cell"... it will shock them, titillate them, while far more important things will go unnoticed.
People want LoTR and Avatar.
BTW - there are rumors of Putin about to die of sarcoma. Now, THAT will shock the philistines, I am sure! Until next sale.

Edits: 11/25/12
- Well, I was running out of slasher flicks so I changed the pace . . . - mr grits 13:39:40 11/25/12 (3)
  What drew me in was how seemingly complete it was with its detail and artistic bent. They made it interesting and that's the kicker.
  - I didn't doubt for a second it was interesting - Victor Khomenko 14:53:37 11/25/12 (2)
    I was merely questioning its wide appeal, I might take a look at it, but what does your average Harvard professor know or care about Russia?
    - They monocle crowd would be watching Tarr, no doubt. * - mr grits 18:20:06 11/25/12 (1)
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      - Watch, "Damnation." ntr - tinear 08:00:49 11/27/12 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: They monocle crowd would be watching Tarr, no doubt. * posted by mr grits on November 25, 2012 at 18:20:06
        
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- RE: LoTR and Avatar are 'literature' comparing it to Transformers, Comic strip inspiring mega blockbusters! - Arthuro Bandini 12:34:07 11/25/12 (3)
  Imagine modern audience lining up to watch "Waterloo" with R. Steiger?
  �Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste "
  ― Charles Bukowski
  - Got a keeper copy.....on some perverse level Steiger worked for me . . . . - mr grits 13:36:00 11/25/12 (0)
    Napolean had to be somewhat outgoing and bombast due to his size and Steiger's propensity for over-acting filled the bill just as Chris Plummer's Wellington did for the other side.
  - Waterloo - one of my all-time favorite movies - Victor Khomenko 12:53:55 11/25/12 (1)
    I witnessed its shooting in Mukachevo area, apparently Bondarchuk did not have any problem getting thousands of extras - local military bases had all the soldiers he needed.
    
    Love that film, and love Steiger in that role, even though some Napoleonic "purists" turn their noses. To me he is one great Emperor.
    
    I don't know what Transformers is, I am way too old for that shit, I guess.
    - Bad acting is just that. Steiger's autopsy would have revealed the cause of death as - tinear 19:21:21 11/25/12 (0)
      "Poisoning by scenery."

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