Watched it. Worth my time. But I'm guessing that only an oblique reference to the drinking, whoring and snorting was due to it being a band approved documentary. Still worth it for the focus on the music and the sheer otherly talent of them.
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Watched Equaliser 3. Ok. 6.4786543 Triceratops
Watched Juror No 2 on plane. It was alright, interesting idea but ending was a bit shit I thought.
I've not read or watched The Salt Path but this is pretty damning The Real Salt Path.
Loved the book and was intending to go to the film, but that's made me have a bit of a rethink. Sad that such a moving and empowering story, full of warmth and human kindness, is perhaps not all that it seems. I guess the walking stuff is still valid, but for me the context is not what it was.
Even the walking stuff to an extent, given there's sizable doubt being put on whether he actually has the condition that they are claiming.
I realise they are just actors, who can't be expected to research to that extent, but it does make Jason Isaacs (who's done a lot of promotion and supported the couple in the process), in particular, look like a bit of a rube.
Stepping back a bit, author writes something not entirely true is not a massively shocking revelation. Even in "true" stories.
Of course. But the gap between "we lent some money to a friend's business and as a result we're conned and lost our house" and "we defrauded a friend's business and paying that money back meant we lost our house. Oh and we had another house in France, so weren't really homeless" goes beyond a bit of punching up the story to make it better.
Well...it seems to have worked?
I've not read the book or seen the film and have no intention of (folks walking along a path didn't grab me as a great thing).
But I'm kind of with Tricky, mostly assume everything is fiction these days.
There's another subtext to this though, in that the book propagates the myth that you can 'walk off' a terminal illness. Turns out he may not even have been ill...
Also, “we got involved in a deal that went wrong” versus “I stole a bunch of money, got caught and then promptly fucked over the relatives that helped us avoid serious legal trouble.”
Hardly sounds like it went to plan.
“Raynor Winn” strikes back: www.raynorwinn.co.uk/
Reasonably convincing to me. Although this bit makes no sense, unless you were much more stupid than they appear to be
Can I have my money back? No. But what if I borrowed it against your house and gave you that?
I mean, if she did lie throughout the book and fooled everyone, you presume she can write a convincing lie now as well.
She's bonkers engaging with all this IMO. She can write what she wants, but forever everyone is going to think she's dodgy whether it was the truth or not. Take the cash. Get your head down. Move on. Stop stoking the flames with STATEMENTS.
