Steven Spielberg. Without the success of Jaws or the passion of filmmaking, we would not have some of our beloved favorites in our storage of memories in the theaters or while watching at home. Hearing about a documentary about one of my favorite directors of all-time, I was in. But, I did not want like a timeline in which how the experiences of each movie differed from one another. Even though I wanted a bit more from the personal insight based on other experience in other films, this is a very good documentary about a man that has the behavior of a kid that loves what does he best: make movies.
We go on a journey with him and many of his co-workers, cast mates and a few critics in praising how Spielberg is one of the best working filmmakers and what makes him the best. He has filmmaking techniques that satisfies everybody but he also he has the same creative team for many movies in which parallels the fast pace of finishing the movie under budget and on time or close to that deadline. It makes them easier for him as he grows from experience.
The one interesting aspect of this two-and-a-half documentary is how separation and reunification is in almost every one of his movies because he is showing his personal life in which his parents separated when he was a kid. It was a bit sad but also uplifting as to how Spielberg and his father reunited happily as both son and father. Sure, we see him talking about his movies like Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Schindler's List, etc. but how he became one of the best from being a persistent kid at the Universal lot to directing as a kid to being a part of the group of ambitious up-and-coming directors is fascinating. And, at 70, he is not stopping and we are grateful that we are getting more movies from him.
***1/2
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