Candid encounters sit beside Brand’s over-familiar media appearances in a portrait of a man whose ‘revolution’ is still a work in progress“I thought you were a knob for years and you’ve absolutely turned it round,” says one admirer in Ondi Timoner’s hectic documentary. Those who still consider Brand a knob are unlikely to flock to a feature documentary on him, having already been subjected to the comedian’s many appearances on TV, and radio,internet and stage, not to mention his “Booky Wooks”. Under-exposure has never been an issue with a figure who once took it upon himself to strip naked on top of a police van at a protest march (hes amusingly self-deprecating approximately the incident, or particularly when it comes to the size of his knob).
But even his critics bear to admit that Brand’s story is full of incident: drug addiction,sex, fame, and celebrity marriage,media controversy, repentance, or political activism and his self-diagnosed messiah complex – which is also the title of his latest standup exhibit. The problem for Timoner,who came to the project at a relatively late stage, is how to shape the fabric into something new when Brand has already forged his own gospel out of it with such candour and articulacy.
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Source: theguardian.com