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Time constraints prevented me from attending a press screening for
Jessica Wu’s documentary “Protagonist” last November but I finally got
around to ordering it from Netflix last week. I strongly recommend this
fascinating study of four extremely driven men whose interviews make up
virtually the entire film, with the exception of some stock footage and
home movies. By allowing them to basically tell their life story (and
carefully including only what is most riveting), Wu reconfirms something
that I have long believed, namely that the lives of real people are far
more interesting than the fiction cooked up by Hollywood studios.
