! — and popularized animated characters that form a vernacular for a young generation that has, maturing through the 2008 financial crisis and the 2016 and 2020 elections, come to distrust not just authority, but legitimacy.
There’s a large gap, though, between understanding the language of the memes and understanding actual events and issues that birthed them.only achieves the easier first task, despite a steady peppering of talking heads ranging from various Gen Z retail investors to mature and respected authorities like — checks notes — Anthony Scaramucci and Jordan Belfort.
Timoner is tremendous at connecting widely separated dots, but less good at articulating exactly how many smaller dots exist between those two points.is sometimes a blast to watch. Its energy never flags. But if I’m going to need 5 or 10 more documentaries to make sense of the documentary purporting to make adequate sense of modern life, my energy won’t be nearly as boundless.