Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Winnebago Man

documentary

Outtakes from a 1989 industrial film shoot went viral on youtube and made Jack Rebney famous. This filmmaker tries here to make himself famous by riding on the coattails of the crotchety 76 year old blind guy Jack has become.

I found myself a bit irritated most of the way through this film but got sucked in to the feel-good ending. Eliminate the last ten minutes and it would be awful. With them...it came up to OK.

I kept having the sense that Jack may actually be a thoughtful, interesting man with something to say but the filmmaker repeatedly steered him away from a message of any substance.

5

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