Review of Salinger (2013) by Steve J — 28 Nov 2013

Wow, another cheesy documentary. It's interesting in parts but it doesn't spend enough time on what's really interesting (the writing, duh!). Plus the music is just so strident and sentimental, it becomes thoroughly annoying pretty quickly.

Plus there's a whole shitload of unnecessary WWII footage. We get it, the war affected him profoundly. And we've all seen the concentration camp footage, there's no need for that here. It just seemed kind of sensationalistic for the director to include that.

It's just very middling and kind of trashy. Overall I'd say avoid it.