A sweeping looking at an infamous media & political character, love him or loathe him, his heart's in the right place & for that we must be grateful for his indomitable spirit in the face of often mountainous odds.
We see here that Tatchell's messages were regularly received somewhat poorly, mainly due to his rather humourless & dour approach, such a shame he didn't employ humour as it always helps the medicine go down, obviously that's just not who he is.
Produced by Elton John & David Furnish, it's a decent effort & has some balance, with critiques of his methods, but it could've gone further; being interviewed by Sir Ian Mckellen for instance, it's obviously a soft, non probing chat & not a Paxman like drill down.
From a technical, film making point of view, the audio mix is very poor, as the 'background' music is either at the same level of the dialogue or quite often louder, this makes it both difficult to hear what people are saying & enjoy the subject matter; it's really rather annoying!
The sadness, maybe even tragedy that's followed from Peters' righteous struggles is that people didn't realise or recognise when the fight no longer needed to be fought & they now hunt out anything or anyone in order to be offended & 'cancel' it, continuing a struggle that has largely been won, in the west at least. Here he also talks about 'solidarity' which is a wonderful thing, but this has lead to the trap of alphabet group identities; I don't identify with any group mentioned here, I'm me, I hope group identity becomes the busted flush it so obviously is.
As a viewer, who just happens to be gay, it's a tough watch & I used to find Peter a bit of an irritant, as I was just trying to fit in, but when you hear of his injuries & his continuing defiance, he really must be saluted. I just hope that people will now come together & STOP looking for the differences between us.
