Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Never to Play Football

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Cristian s @cristiansj 12/12/2022 Para ser un documental resulta bastante entretenida y graciosa. Buena historia, buen ritmo y muy bien contada, a cualquier persona que le guste el futbol le va a gustar bastante. See more 05/05/2021 Interesting story, but lacks drama in the telling and gets repetitive at times See more 07/21/2019 Must see for people who like football and sports in general. See more 09/22/2018 A must see movie for anyone that loves football. See more 07/29/2018 As my normal relationship with Association Rules Football is one of rather aggressive apathy. I wasn't hopeful when I was persuaded to see a documentary of bally kicky people called "Kaiser". So, having stocked up on code compliant supplies, I thought, 'well at least I'll get the chance to get over my jet lag'. I don't think I've ever been more grateful to miss out on a two hour nap. Kaiser, despite its billing, isn't really a film about football at all. It's about the corrupting effect of status, machismo, and vanity. It's about how we all crave deception, fantasy, and are often complicit in it. And what it's not about, is some lurrvy-fest to the "beautiful" game . Watching a honour roll of so called footballing "heroes" condemn themselves by their own testimony to be a collection of corrupt bullying sleezeballs immediately made me re-assess the adulation I have given my own "heroes". And makes one question, to what extent are our cultural touch points, our celebrities, our joint memory - really what we think they are- are we all being conned? Although the tone sometimes feels more complicit with the subjects than it should, the emotional heart of the film is the story of a man, not wholey good, not wholey bad, who is destroyed by the very gifts the gods have given him. Kaiser, is a character straight out of Greek tragedy - a trickster who's lies have so consumed him that the moment of catharsis in the final act is made all the more powerful by the fact we can never quite believe him. This is the boy who cried wolf - with sex, gangsters, and a bunch of socially idolised man-children. See more Read all reviews

Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Never to Play Football

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