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 allenii Stranger  Registered: 09/09/26 Posts: 67 Last seen: 5 hours, 41 minutes |
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Hey everyone I managed to find a link for the new documentary Musk directed by Alex Gibney. It's worth watching but be prepared because it's expansive and 4 hours or so long.
I encourage everyone to watch it and I also encourage discussion in the comments about this https://www.lookmovie2.to/movie
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lifeiswhatyoumake   Registered: 09/30/11 Posts: 20,291 Last seen: 13 hours, 3 minutes |
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Summarize it, please.
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ShroomDad  Registered: 03/19/23 Posts: 182 Last seen: 10 hours, 40 minutes |
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Musk tried to buy an election for a corrupt administration, and his attempt to destroy a civilized society by providing a platform for Russian bot farms, has likely killed his chances for a Mars landing. At least with our money.
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allenii Stranger Registered: 09/09/26 Posts: 67 Last seen: 5 hours, 41 minutes |
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Auto-SummaryIn this detailed response, user allenii discusses the 2026 documentary Musk (2026), directed by Alex Gibney, which provides a forensic examination of Elon Musk's transition from tech innovator to political power broker. The post highlights the film's unconventional use of a CGI avatar to represent Musk, who declined to be interviewed, and notes how the documentary exposes a pattern of "oversold promises" and corporate malfeasance. Key topics covered include the alleged cover-up of Tesla Autopilot accidents, the human impact of gutting USAID through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and personal allegations of abuse from former partners. The user provides an extensive AI-generated breakdown that details the film's two-part structure: a biographical look at Musk's upbringing and rise in Silicon Valley, followed by his controversial political alliance with Donald Trump. Ultimately, the post frames the documentary as a study of myth-making, portraying Musk as a man who has engineered a public persona so pervasive that even a digital simulation can articulate his own controversial legacy. @lifeiswhatyoumake It covered a lot, what shroomdad said but also it has some of his ex's and former colleagues and he took away food assistance going towards people in Africa which is projected to kill millions of people including children because he appointed tons of 20-25 year olds with no experience in govt and they were tasked with gutting and removing USAID. He promised or made it seem like his cars were perfect on autopilot and people died believing the self driving cars were safe, his grok AI was used to undress women and children and resulted in disgusting people creating their own CAM (child abuse material), he tried having as many children as possible with as many women as possible and tried to make one of them sign an NDA ensuring she will never disclose who the father is except to the child but she refused to sign it. etc etc below is an AI quote - sorry for relying on AI to summarize it but it suffices Musk (2026) is a 235-minute documentary directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, released theatrically on October 9, 2026, and distributed by Bleecker Street. The film serves as a definitive, unvarnished examination of Elon Musk, tracing his transformation from a celebrated Silicon Valley innovator to a controversial political power broker. Because Musk declined to be interviewed, Gibney created a CGI avatar of him that utters his own verbatim public quotes, creating a "digital doppelgänger" to anchor the narrative. The documentary is structured chronologically, revealing a pattern of oversold promises and corporate malfeasance that has sustained Musk’s empire. It exposes the gap between his public persona as a visionary engineer and his private reality as a "Gilded Age confidence man" who takes credit for work he did not do. Key revelations include the cover-up of fatal Tesla Autopilot accidents, the manipulation of the X (formerly Twitter) algorithm, and the environmental damage caused by his AI data centers. The film also delves into his deeply racist upbringing in South Africa and his abusive relationships with women, including interviews with his ex-wife Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair. The second half of the film focuses on Musk’s alliance with Donald Trump and his role in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Gibney argues that Musk’s embrace of right-wing politics was a strategic move to insulate himself from federal prosecution and government oversight. The film posits that Musk’s wealth was built not on genuine invention, but on the careful construction of a myth that hides "dark skeletons," including drug use, election interference, and the indiscriminate dismantling of government agencies. Critics have described the film as a "real-life horror movie" and a "lacerating portrait" of technocratic brilliance mixed with megalomania, earning a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. A More Eloquent Elaboration The film opens with a question that haunts every frame that follows: "How has Elon Musk assumed so much power, and why did we give it to him?" Gibney, the Oscar-winning director behind Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Taxi to the Dark Side, spent more than four years constructing what he calls the definitive portrait of the man now widely regarded as the world's first trillionaire. The thesis is deceptively simple and, in Gibney's words, "old wine in a new bottle": Musk is a confidence man whose wealth and influence rest not on the strength of his inventions but on a carefully manufactured myth — a myth that, as the film argues, conceals "dark skeletons" ranging from drug use and spousal abuse to alleged election interference. Structure: Two Films in One A recurring observation among critics is that Musk reads as two distinct documentaries stitched together. The first half is biographical and forensic, tracing a chronology from a bullied childhood in apartheid-era South Africa — where his father Errol Musk is interviewed and describes the tense, violent environment that shaped young Elon — through Zip2, PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX. The second half, which Gibney revealed he was asked by HBO to continue after the original cut was finished in 2024, documents what he called Musk's "heel turn": his embrace of Donald Trump, his role as the de facto head of DOGE, and the dismantling of federal agencies. This expansion is what ballooned the runtime to 235 minutes (with a 10-minute intermission baked in), and it is also why Universal reportedly "got cold feet" before Bleecker Street stepped in to distribute. The Avatar: A Man Who Manufactures His Reality Because Musk declared the project a "hit piece" the moment it was announced in 2023 and refused to be interviewed — sending attorney Alex Spiro a letter threatening a defamation suit — Gibney made what Deadline called the film's "most brazen and innovative technique": a CGI avatar of Musk, hand-designed by the VFX studio MakeMake, who sits in a gaming chair bathed in purple and red light, wearing a black leather jacket, and mouths verbatim quotes drawn from a database of everything Musk has ever said publicly. The avatar is deliberately uncanny — the head too large, the breathing too heavy, the eyes soulless — and Gibney has said the idea was "intentionally ironic," a staging of the film's central theme: a man who manufactures his own reality. As The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney put it, the conceit is a "stroke of creative genius," while The Atlantic noted that the avatar is "more chiseled than the real Musk — 'I think I did him a favor,' Gibney said." Key Revelations and Voices The film's most damning material comes from those who worked alongside Musk. Martin Eberhard, Tesla's co-founder, recounts how Musk "took unconditional credit" for the company's success and anointed himself its sole founder, leading to litigation and a settlement. Tesla employees describe faking the cars' performance in a widely circulated promotional video, and the film includes harrowing footage of fatal Autopilot accidents. On the personal front, Justine Musk and Ashley St. Clair speak about abusive relationships; St. Clair makes the film's most sensational claim, that Musk told her he would exploit "an anomaly in the matrix" to affect the outcome of the 2024 presidential race, citing his access to "space lasers" — an apparent reference to his Starlink constellation. The DOGE section is where the film takes on its most political and, some reviewers say, most disturbing tone. Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning "godfather of AI," appears on screen to say: "It's fairly clear to me that Trump is hell-bent on corrupting the midterm elections. If you wanted to corrupt those midterm elections and you wanted to use AI, all you needed to do was get detailed information on U.S. citizens. And what DOGE did looked like just what you would do." The film also documents the environmental damage from Musk's AI data centers and the devastating consequences of DOGE's gutting of USAID. Reception and Legacy Premiering at the Venice Film Festival in September 2026, the film earned a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes (7.5/10 average) and a 77 on Metacritic. Variety called it "a lacerating and important watch, grounded in Gibney's supremely insightful but user-friendly mastery of the documentary form." The Telegraph dubbed it "a chillingly forensic hatchet job." The New York Times offered a more measured take, finding the answer to its central question "unsatisfying" in places, while Ars Technica noted the film "feels like two different films" smushed together. At the Critics' Choice Documentary Awards on November 8, 2026, Musk won Best Biographical Documentary and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature and Best Political Documentary. What unites the critical consensus is this: whether one finds the avatar gimmicky or inspired, the film's accumulation of testimony — from co-founders to ex-wives to Nobel laureates — constructs a portrait that is, in Gibney's own framing, not a new tech story but the oldest one there is: the story of a man who "started with 'fake it till you make it'" and "ended up investing in the idea of 'keep faking it.'" Further Elaboration The Voices That Cut Deepest The film's architecture is built around a deliberate escalation of intimacy: from public figures who worked alongside Musk, to the private women who lived with him. The NYT's review singles out these two tracks as the documentary's "strongest and most damning parts." Justine Musk's interview is, by all accounts, the emotional spine of the first half. At their wedding, he told her he was the "alpha male." She describes a pattern in which, during arguments, he "always found a way to make her feel as if she was in the wrong." The film also revisits the death of their first child, Nevada, who died of sudden infant death syndrome ten days after birth — a loss that, in the film's framing, revealed the architecture of his control even in grief. Ashley St. Clair is the film's most consequential witness. A former conservative influencer who dated Musk for two years and gave birth to his 13th known child, Romulus, in 2024, she appears at the Venice premiere in person, telling journalists: "I was offered the opportunity not to speak for $40 million." The terms she describes — a $15 million lump sum plus $100,000 per month for 21 years — were, she says, withdrawn when she refused to sign. Musk, in a post on X a day after the premiere, denied the offer ever existed, calling her a fabricator with "a history of making false claims." St. Clair also alleges that her child support was cut by 60 percent after she criticized him publicly, and that his right-hand man Jared Birchall personally pressured her to sign. The "space lasers" claim remains the film's most explosive and legally contested moment. In a text exchange on the night of the 2024 election — which NPR obtained and authenticated — Musk reportedly told St. Clair: "I knew that hours ago. We have the best real-time data." When she pressed him, he referenced "an anomaly in the matrix" and "10,000 lasers in space." At a November 10 press event, Gibney himself called this the film's "scariest revelation," noting with visible caution that it was "the issue on which Elon's lawyer threatened to sue us." The implication — that the Starlink constellation might have been weaponized for electoral surveillance — is one that, as Deadline observed, Gibney "lets hang" without definitive proof. The Father Who Shot Three Men Perhaps the single most chilling moment in the film, according to Roger Ebert's website, is an interview with Errol Musk. The former South African engineer and property developer coolly recounts the night he shot and killed three Black intruders on his property, describing "the different shades of red in the blood that streamed out of them." The archival footage is unflinching in its calm, and the film uses it to ground its argument about the racial and violent substrate of Musk's upbringing in apartheid-era Pretoria. The Lieutenants and the Experts Beyond the family, the film assembles a constellation of voices that extend well beyond the usual critics. Geoffrey Hinton provides the intellectual scaffolding for the DOGE section, explaining how access to federal citizen data could be leveraged for electoral manipulation. Samantha Power, the former USAID administrator, speaks to the devastating human consequences of the agency's gutting. Reid Hoffman, Kara Swisher, and Zoë Schiffer add the perspective of those who covered or partnered with Musk from the outside. The trailer also surfaces Cory Doctorow and physicist Adam Becker, suggesting the film reaches into the broader intellectual ecosystem of tech criticism. The film also touches on Neuralink, showing footage of a light being turned on monkeys that advocacy groups say "suffered needlessly" during experiments — a detail that, in context, reinforces the film's broader thesis about the gap between Musk's public mythology and the private costs of his ambitions. The Production Machine Behind the Myth The film is a genuinely large-scale production. It was produced by Jigsaw Productions, HBO Documentary Films, Double Agent, AC Independent, and Closer Media. The producing team includes Ronan Farrow and Lawrence Wright, lending it the weight of serious investigative journalism. Gibney and his team spent more than three years researching, compiling not only archival footage but a comprehensive database of every public statement Musk has ever made — the raw material for the avatar. The distribution path itself became a story. Universal reportedly "got cold feet" before Bleecker Street acquired U.S. theatrical rights in August 2025, with HBO holding pre-bought streaming rights. The film's theatrical run was brief and, by the numbers, underwhelming: a four-theater opening in New York and Los Angeles on October 9 grossed a respectable $68,900 (roughly $17,000 per screen), but the expansion to 472 theaters on October 16 yielded just $666 per screen, and the film was pulled from most locations by late October, finishing its run at approximately $730,000 domestically. It hit VOD and HBO Max in early November. This box-office collapse became entangled with a broader controversy: Semafor reported that Musk had invested approximately $1 billion in Skydance, the combined entity formed after Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery — the corporate parent of HBO Max, the very platform where Musk would stream. Deadline explicitly pushed back on speculation that theaters were pulling the film under Musk's pressure: "that's just not true." But the optics were difficult to ignore, and The Verge noted the irony of a film about a man's grip on media and power being distributed by a company whose ownership overlaps with his own. A Coincidental Irony in the Distributor's Fate Adding a final layer of irony: in October 2026, Bleecker Street was acquired by Outerlight Entertainment, a company backed by billionaire Pierre Omidyar. Outerlight has also backed Passionflix, a streaming service run by Musk's own sister, Tosca Musk. The documentary about the most powerful man in the world was, in its final theatrical weeks, distributed by a company with a direct familial tie to its subject. The Cultural Aftermath The film's reception has been less a matter of critical debate than of cultural friction. Its TikTok account was permanently suspended within days of the wide release. At a New York screening on November 9, Robert De Niro took the stage and, according to Deadline, "knocks Elon Musk" in remarks that were widely shared. The film won Best Biographical Documentary at the Critics' Choice Documentary Awards on November 8 and remains in the Oscar conversation for Best Documentary Feature. Universal has since set international release dates, with the film rolling out globally in the coming weeks. What the film ultimately accomplishes, beyond its specific revelations, is a formal argument about the nature of myth-making in the digital age. The avatar — uncanny, over-rendered, breathing too heavily in a gaming chair bathed in purple light — is not merely a workaround for a refused interview. It is the film's thesis made visible: a man who has spent thirty years engineering a public self so total that even his absence can be simulated, and the simulation is more compelling than the silence. As Mashable put it, the film is "brutal" but "very fair," because it never needs to accuse. It simply lets Musk, in his own words, "punch himself in the face over and over again." Edited by allenii (11/11/26 12:05 AM)
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Psilynut2 Stranger  Registered: 04/28/17 Posts: 7,586 Last seen: 5 hours, 13 minutes |
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Do you think it's with 15$ ? I almost rented it on sun . If I wait till Jan I can watch it for free .
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vicepope The devils best grower  Registered: 04/16/24 Posts: 10,823 Loc: The fear that burns in the hea... Last seen: 58 minutes, 32 seconds |
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I have amc a+ so I saw it basically free. No it's anti musk propaganda so not really worth watching. Musk has pot armor with business that's how he worked it out in the past, bring the best people and paying the best local people for the jobs meant for them. Lucid motors is generally a carbon copy of tesla with business model with ex tesla higher ups starting the company. Yet they are failing because they hired based warehouse workers to build there cars. It doesn't go into the deep ties musk has with the democrats including spending just as much in 2016 has he did on 2026 election when adjusted for inflation. It doesn't go into him being a nerdy petty bicth that turned on his leftist opinion as buying Twitter because they kicked him ot socially. Illegal down load it and wacth at 2x speed you'll be happier. -------------------- The better guide to grow mushrooms. https://www.shroomery.org/forum Beware the power of one. The power of two. The power of many.
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