07-02-2011, 07:29 PM
Quote:The film is generally sympathetic to Khodorkovsky, with a lot of footage of his family, friends and associates (I think he overdoes that) and an extraordinary interview that Tuschi got while his subject was in court. It also includes interviews with people who explain that the man was really a crook. Not enough of that. I would have been tougher.
Based on my research and evidence, Khodorkovsky did indeed get his Yukos oil empire by fraud and also evaded taxes. So did many other current titans of industry who made their deals with Putin and were not targeted.
Hmmm - so who stole the film?
Russian goons?
Or Khodorkovsky's goons?
It also sounds like a technically illiterate theft. To steal a "film", in today's world of digital editing, the thieves would need to steal the master source films and tapes. Stealing a cut film is a huge and expensive irritation for the filmmakers, but so long as a back up of the digital edit code is saved somewhere, the finished film can be reconstituted.
Bizarre.
Which begs the question: is this simply a marketing ploy?
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war