Our first chance at getting into the best documentary category. We took a day off yesterday because I am sick. Yay. That's less good, but this we could watch at home.

This is something of a weird, artistic kind of documentary. It really could have benefitted of a narrator who actually wove the story together.

There's some really interesting parts, about the jazz musicians being trotted around the Congo to hide the US involvement's in attempting to oust Lumumba

The music, while making for a nice soundtrack, wasn't nearly as connected as I wanted it to be. It's an interesting premise, but like the first two hours of the movie were so superfluous and could've been cut right out while getting into the meat of the story

For the longest time we weren't exactly sure what the documentary was about.

Very odd, but the story was definitely worth looking at - everything that was happening at the UN was interesting in contrast to what was going on in Congo at the time, and of course the start of the mercinaries

They billed it as leading up to the protest held at the UN which of course they do get to but there's nothing outside of that stateside that explored...any of that. Just a couple of quotes from Maya Angelou's book.

I don't know, I wouldn't call this a great documentary or anything, but it was fine.

Like it references them organizing this protest, having meetings and really didn't get into any of that at all so aside from actually showing up to scream at the assembly, which they did in protest, that wasn't explored at all

Nor was Russia's interest and ties, what they thought they could get out of it by chasing out Belgium, vs. dealing with the US. So there were things alluded to, but not exactly covered.

Coming out of this I'm like well this is something I don't know a lot about, but I kind of wish they'd gotten into more of the details in the documentary.

Like things like that protest turned violent, they didn't get into that, nor did they give the reasons for the assassination being in that exact moment, which was partly because Kennedy was not interested in killing Lumumba and they were worried the assassination plots would cease, things like that.

It would've been good to know those things.