The infamous scene in PSYCHO when character-actor Simon Oakland as a shrink is describing Norman Bates as two different people actually happens here, when Caitlyn Jenner talks about Bruce Jenner as a different person completely, at one point even putting up "quote" fingers when saying his... or rather, her former name...
And it's that name, Bruce Jenner, that bought Caitlyn the Malibu cliff-side beach-house because of what he, not she, did during the 1976 Olympics...
Which, beginning in the 1960's and leading up to 1976 including the 1972 Olympics, is the best part of this documentary... a documentary that doesn't quite know what it wants to be: an Olympic Legend's Bio or a Transgender Woman's Bio...
Somehow, both are allowed to be exist together despite not flowing as a single hour-long program... a cake and eat it too situation that really makes no sense... If Bruce wasn't Bruce than how does Caitlyn still have the Gold Medal from when he, or she or...
It's too confusing, really, but the Olympic aspect is very good, and uses the kind of suspense only found in competitive sports... despite knowing the outcome it puts you right on the edge...
Yet simply loses focus after Bruce... yes, BRUCE... rushes through his life as an Olympic has-been and then comes to terms with the woman she is now, which is fine... people can be what they want to be... there is no problem that Bruce became Caitlyn Jenner... it's a free country...
It's just difficult to hear any person relate to their own self as someone else entirely without thinking of how infamous that PSYCHO monologue is... for basically the same reason that Caitlyn Jenner is being praised.
And it's that name, Bruce Jenner, that bought Caitlyn the Malibu cliff-side beach-house because of what he, not she, did during the 1976 Olympics...
Which, beginning in the 1960's and leading up to 1976 including the 1972 Olympics, is the best part of this documentary... a documentary that doesn't quite know what it wants to be: an Olympic Legend's Bio or a Transgender Woman's Bio...
Somehow, both are allowed to be exist together despite not flowing as a single hour-long program... a cake and eat it too situation that really makes no sense... If Bruce wasn't Bruce than how does Caitlyn still have the Gold Medal from when he, or she or...
It's too confusing, really, but the Olympic aspect is very good, and uses the kind of suspense only found in competitive sports... despite knowing the outcome it puts you right on the edge...
Yet simply loses focus after Bruce... yes, BRUCE... rushes through his life as an Olympic has-been and then comes to terms with the woman she is now, which is fine... people can be what they want to be... there is no problem that Bruce became Caitlyn Jenner... it's a free country...
It's just difficult to hear any person relate to their own self as someone else entirely without thinking of how infamous that PSYCHO monologue is... for basically the same reason that Caitlyn Jenner is being praised.