Shady knight
The movie begins with a monologue about childhood, narrated by Beyonce. Then we're at a concert, she drops the B word for some reason (She's bad like that), and we're done with that.Then the "documentary" goes on to the event concerning her father, and their breakup as co workers, Beyonce talks, in, this, slow, and, odd way, as, if, everything, she, says, has, a, deep, impact, and, are meaningfull, but really, it's just comes off as if she is not accustomed to use those big words ...Then we see her being interviewed, Beyonce is talking about the cross-road she faced after she fired here father, and throws all this questions at the viewers regarding her priorities, and guess what, next sentence is about something completely different.Next we have her talking about how we all are brained-washed by the media, well, this is something we can argue, but, why, does, she, still, talk, like, this?Next we see her before her album release, in the office, listing to one of the songs, while mostly white men in their mid 40 is bumping their head (not exactly to the beat, but just randomly), and she paused the song and says "sorry (something something)" and the room breaks out in laughter, and stands up clapping. After thet is done with, one of the men (the one sitting closest to B) says that this album raises the bar. That is funny Because as B is leaving the building we see a poster of Adel's "21", a album that did raise the bar.Anyway, anyway, that is how far I came, the movie is co-directed by B, and that just means that it is going to be shallow, after all, a self-portrait that you publish will not be anything more than that. B tires hard to be deep, but the movie is shot in this artsy way witch makes it come off as superficial. If my review came off disjointed, it's because the movie is like that, now try watching an hour of that. :)
arelis-852-329586
Had they gone into Beyonce's upbringing, childhood and family more, it could have been interesting. But, it is really sanitized, obviously left out anything for the public to learn about the real Beyonce. If this is truly a documentary about her true life, well then she is incredibly boring. The opposite purpose of what documentaries are supposed to be about. Jay Z comes off a bit lame. She comes off as a bit annoying because she goes on about how she is the verdict of her Grandmaother's prayers, and too much on her connection with God. If they added something a general person can relate to that would have helped, but the director can't be very proud of this one. If he is, he doesn't have much to offer moving forward
MrRockatansky
Beyoncé is the star, executive producer, narrator, co-writer and co-director of this film, which pretty much tells you what the real purpose of this "documentary" is. Only the true "beylievers" could enjoy this, for only Beyoncé's biggest fans could look beyond the amount of superficiality and narcissism in this film. It's essentially just the film equivalent of taking lots of flattering pictures of yourself.Beyonce talks into her laptop camera like a narcissist staring at them self in the mirror with complete delight and fascination while she desperately tries to make herself appear a deep and thoughtful artist, but fails miserably because she's actually just a manufactured pop star.Despite the fact that she dances around in tight clothes and sings subservient songs about men putting "a ring on it", Beyoncé also seems to think she's an authority on feminism, saying: "It's not about equal rights; it's about how we think." Ironically, I am still thinking that one over.There is also one moment where Beyoncé hilariously lacks perspective and complains that this current generation is too obsessed with image and superficiality, when this is a superficial documentary that she made in order to enhance her image.The only thing I learned from this film is how surprisingly unintelligent Beyonce is.
