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Big Cat Week: Russia's Wild Tiger (2022)
AWFUL NARRATION RUINS
Bizarre, repulsive, and awkward personification that "un-tigers," falsifies, and diminishes the tiger, while interfering with immersion and distracting from the subject matter.
Stumbles haphazardly and incongruently between explaining the science and talking "as the tiger," in a way which totally misleads youngsters about the animal's point of view, and what we do/don't know about that.
Yet another embarrassing blunder in a line from these producers for Big Cat Week.
*First-person narration does not connect better with kids.*
It just treats them like they are stupid, and dumbs down their content, making them dumber, when it was meant to elevate their minds.
Have *some taste, use at least SOME sophistication, and watch our kids rise to the occasion.
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates (2019)
Better Than Critics Say.
Critic reviews seem wrongly biased against the fact that the film's producer knows and admires Mr. Gates. However, I think he handled that utterly appropriately. An affectionate but even-handed portrayal by an honest friend, unafraid to call the man on his flaws & potential wrongs, yet the fact is that Gates actually IS a wonderful human being, so what seems like "mere heaping of praise" is just an accurate portrayal of what is. I would challenge the film's final thesis, however, with a point it seems to have missed: It doesn't matter whether or not Gates actually succeeds in solving these world problems-- by simply trying as hard as he does, he has substantially moved the needle for 3rd world development more than any single living person ever has. THANK GOD FOR BILL GATES.