Watch enough of the new IFC documentary “Larry Flynt: The Right to be Left Alone,” airing at 9 p.m. EST tonight, and you might just write his name on the ballot this fall.
Flynt has led a fascinating life, no matter where you stand on his activities - and proclivities. But this doc is so unbalanced and poorly assembled that few will learn anything fresh or genuinely revealing about its subject.
My Pajamas Media review tells the rest of the story. Also check out Kyle Smith’s withering review at the New York Post.
It’s a wasted opportunity to dig deeper into a fascinating and flawed character. Apparently, the doc filmmakers took everything Flynt said at face value, which does the viewers and the documentary format a disservice.
If memory serves, “The People vs. Larry Flynt” told a great story - even if it smudged over the truth in order to do so. Documentaries don’t have that wiggle room.
(Photo: Hustler publisher and free speech lightning rod Larry Flynt)
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Funny liberals. They’re adamant that you can’t say certain words, bring up certain facts or use certain concepts in arguments. They pass laws and establish “human rights commissions”, trash conservative campus newspapers to make sure that no protected group is exposed to hurtful speech.
But depictions of human genitalia they consider the yardsticks of our political freedom and those profiting by propagating those images to the local convenience store political heros. One can argue that this is because they have their head stuck so far up their excretory orifices that certain objects appear larger in importance that they would to normal people.
Extraordinarily well said, K. Not sure what I could add to your eloquent rant.