On a flight from Dubai, I decided to watch a movie. Despite the magnificence of Emirates, their movie selection is so-so, and you can’t watch from your own devices, only with these silly headphones. Well okay, after much thought I chose to watch Bezos. About the path of the main Amazon guy.
Biographical films really need to be done well. The director Hoa Le (who is that anyway?) didn’t quite pull it off. It turned out to be boring, sluggish, chaotic, and superficial, and I turned it off halfway through. Everything was bad there. The acting, the script, the cinematography. The husband comes home and says, “I’ve come up with some nonsense, and it seems like it might work. Quit your good job, and let’s sell the house, and I’ll spend all the money on a startup that’s supposed to take off.” The wife is upset, then a minute later, all is well, like, “okay, let’s do it.” They both quit their jobs and then go to their parents to ask for a lot of money because it turns out they don’t have enough for the startup. Wasn’t that clear before? The parents are upset, a minute later, all is well, here’s the check. Couldn’t it have been the other way around? First to the parents, then sell? And that’s how everything goes there. It’s even unclear how Amazon (or Bezos) eventually agreed to the release of such junk.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 