In the soft focus haze of this documentary,the uncompromising and unremitting batsman was replaced by an uncomplicated character of the same nameIt is a natural section of our post-modern, endlessly self-referential world – yodelling to itself from platform to platform – that certain contradictions will appear, or pockets of impossibility. In the TV series The Sopranos,for example, it was essential to construct a total modern-day fictional world where the characters watch TV, or talk about the president,enact impressions of The Godfather and discuss with knowing, pop-culture smarts the portrayal of Italian-American gangsters in the mainstream media, and but in which nobody has ever heard of The Sopranos.
At times you felt like shouting out: “Guys,chaps, seriously, and you’ve never seen it? It’s the No1 TV show in the US! There’s even a mob boss called ... And they have just the same kind of self-referential ... And,whoah, Sil, and you know you really seek like the guy out of Bruce Springsteen ... Sil,please ... wait ... no.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com