Assuming this is mostly accurate, and many TV/movie biographies use too much license for dramatic effect, then it is quite disturbing.
Being in the company of two conceited narcissists is not enjoyable; it is intriguing, but it is basically unpleasant because the manipulation and megalomania that is their currency is traded to exploit other people who believe in the drivel. When someone promises to change the world, they are full of it.
Again, if the material is accurate, the portrait can be just as useful in less time, brevity being the soul of wit as an Englishman said a while ago. And the Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui illustrates a similar journey more concisely.
The series offers perhaps too much material, a psychopath is a psychopath, and two for the same bargain is hardly a treat. The depth of self-confidence portrayed by Leto and Hathaway is compelling, even if the accent is grating, even though it adds to the verisimilitude.
But it should stand as a caution to anyone who believes in the slick sales self-actualization spiel.
Being in the company of two conceited narcissists is not enjoyable; it is intriguing, but it is basically unpleasant because the manipulation and megalomania that is their currency is traded to exploit other people who believe in the drivel. When someone promises to change the world, they are full of it.
Again, if the material is accurate, the portrait can be just as useful in less time, brevity being the soul of wit as an Englishman said a while ago. And the Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui illustrates a similar journey more concisely.
The series offers perhaps too much material, a psychopath is a psychopath, and two for the same bargain is hardly a treat. The depth of self-confidence portrayed by Leto and Hathaway is compelling, even if the accent is grating, even though it adds to the verisimilitude.
But it should stand as a caution to anyone who believes in the slick sales self-actualization spiel.