This is an interesting if overly episodic and too brief documentary about both an interest coach who bucked trends and a terrible tragedy.
The problem for me, is that the terrible tragedy could have been the entire 50 minute film, it could have been more than that. I think this is a missed opportunity and I almost feel like there are two different stories here and the filmmakers picked the slightly less interesting one. Honestly, there’s enough material here for two separate movies, at minimum, and most of the various narrative strands that could have been explored are not.
On the other hand, it’s very interesting – Westhead’s style has been successful and I’d love to see it in action in person – and the parts around the death of Gathers are moving.
Shout by rnhaasBlockedParent2024-05-28T13:46:25Z
This is an interesting if overly episodic and too brief documentary about both an interest coach who bucked trends and a terrible tragedy.
The problem for me, is that the terrible tragedy could have been the entire 50 minute film, it could have been more than that. I think this is a missed opportunity and I almost feel like there are two different stories here and the filmmakers picked the slightly less interesting one. Honestly, there’s enough material here for two separate movies, at minimum, and most of the various narrative strands that could have been explored are not.
On the other hand, it’s very interesting – Westhead’s style has been successful and I’d love to see it in action in person – and the parts around the death of Gathers are moving.