“The Joker” is destined to be the super-villain movie of the season for most filmgoers, obviously. But there’s a certain breed of conservative that might save that honor for “Soros,” a new documentary about billionaire, the do-gooder bogeyman the right loves to hate. Dinesh D’Souza hasn’t yet gotten around to making a feature film demonizing the guy, so the task of directing the first doc about the polarizing philanthropist has fallen to an entirely sympathetic filmmaker,.
Dylan couldn’t have painted a more flattering picture if he worked for Soros. Actually, he did: In the past, he’s made short films on behalf of the philanthropist’s Open Society Foundation. If that organization had a headquarters that offered tours, this is the film they’d have on continuous loop in the visitors’ center. That’s not a knock, necessarily. We could all stand to learn more about the work that’s being done in less privileged or more repressive nations.
There is a lot of personal detail in the early, best part of the film, which explores its subject’s childhood in Nazi-occupied Budapest.
But if actions speak louder than anecdotes, there’s a lot of biographical volume in “Soros” after all. Dylan gets into how Soros’ wokeness really got awakened when he visited South Africa during apartheid’s ugly peak, and contemporary footage shows him wandering into poverty-stricken crowds of the class beneath the underclass to ask questions and learn more — quite a contrast to some incurious, germophobe multi-millionaires we can think of.
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