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I'm a fan of nearly all of the actors in this movie. I'm a fan of the director. It's just made for me. I watched with my wife and she would disagree with me because she has a hard time keeping up with Wes Anderson's pacing. If I were to compare it to any of his previous work I would say it's similar to the French Dispatch... maybe because Benicio del Toro is prominent but I felt like the style was much more that than any of his other movies. Bravo.

This documentary really relies on the audience being mindless and unable to form their own logic. They spend 75% of the documentary building up the character of a girl who made a career out of looking attractive eluding to something serious happening between her and Favre. Was it an affair? Did he rape her? Once it's finally revealed you find that they never met and that he was simply messaging her culminating in him supposedly sending her a picture of his crotch (which was investigated and never proven by a hired forensic analyst). They try to imply this somehow ruined her life and career. Then they spend five minutes on the actual drama which is Favre being part of a scheme to use state welfare money inappropriately. Unfortunately for the documentary crew, after exhaustive investigating they found that, while he probably shouldn't have been involved, it was the politicians who had broken the law and he was cleared. So we have a documentary with a title, "the fall of Favre" essentially saying he deserves to get socially cancelled since he wasn't prosecuted for things he was found not guilty of. Maybe we only care about the Brett Favre that played football. Maybe most people wouldn't like him outside of that. Maybe most of us are ok with that. Maybe these sports documentaries should spend more time focusing on sports and less about silly drama.

It must be really interesting to see this story from an outsider perspective where guns aren't part of daily life. The solution seems so simple, get rid of them. This story plays out acting as if it's normal or ok for NBA players to bring guns into their locker room. No, it's not a joke or funny. I live ATL and it's such a shame that the culture here is so focused on having a weapon to feel strong or hard. Here we have yet another tragic story about how it has ruined several people's lives needlessly. The show itself makes it much less about how this could be prevented and more insists that this is an unavoidable tragedy. The solution is simple. Get rid of them. We cannot handle the responsibility.