Natalia Densmore

Commentary | Personal account. Elon Musk vision enthusiast. Not official.

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

A director who doesn't come up to the builder's heels makes a four-hour film about him.

Yesterday in Venice, Alex Gibney's nearly four-hour documentary "Musk" had its world premiere. It is a classic case of someone who has spent a career telling other people's stories taking on a man who actually builds those stories with rockets, cars, satellites, and infrastructure, not slides.

Alex Gibney is an acclaimed documentarian. An Oscar for Taxi to the Dark Side, Emmys for Going Clear on Scientology, high-profile films on Enron, Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. His specialty is exposing corporations, cults, and frauds. He does it skillfully and with a thesis. The problem starts when he applies the same method to someone who is not selling an illusion, but hardware that either flies or blows up in front of the entire world.

Gibney's fuel is controversy. Elon's fuel is the pursuit of truth hard, engineering truth, the kind that either works on the test stand or it doesn't. It would have been enough to make a film based on facts. Instead we got another rut that fits the slogans of provocation: megalomaniac, confidence man, threat to democracy, an AI avatar reciting old quotes, ex-wives, his father, a former partner. Musk said in 2023 it would be a hit piece. After the premiere, a large share of reviewers effectively agreed with him.

I don't know about you, but four hours of falsified formulas would bore me. Instead I watch how much Elon has already done. His energy is extraordinary. Tesla changed the car industry. SpaceX brings rockets back. Starlink works. Starship stands on the pad and prepares for the next flight. This is not a PowerPoint. It is steel, fuel, engines, and people who cannot hide failure in the edit suite.

A weak documentary like this is a crumb on the shoulder of his jacket. Now it depends on us when and how quickly that blown-off crumb a utopian attention vampire is simply starved of attention. You could list the names of people who tried to take Elon's energy. Energy is the most precious thing we have. Anyone who steals it with slogans, gossip, and a four-hour indictment that excludes the main subject is sowing under his own feet.

Gibney: you reap what you sow. If you have a shred of shame, look at the list of Elon's accomplishments. Look at what kind of person he is for the world and what he does around himself so that things get better cars that drive, internet from orbit, rockets that return, attempts at a brain-computer interface, AI that is supposed to be more than another chatbot. You can dislike his tweets, his political alliances. You cannot honestly erase the scale of what was physically built.

A good documentarian should stand, at least for a moment, in the shoes of the person he is portraying. Gibney did not just fail to do that. He took a measure cut for Enron and Holmes and held it up to a man who lands rockets. He left Elon's shoes in the edit suite. Elon walked on barefoot and kept building.

One man tells stories about the world from an editing chair. The other moves that world. A four-hour film will not change that. At most it will confirm what people who already disliked Musk already believed. Everyone else can blow the crumb off the jacket and keep going.

History does not judge a man by the length of a film. It judges him by what is still in the air when the camera has stopped running.
Controversy feeds on attention. Building feeds on repetition. One vanishes when you look away. The other keeps flying.
You can cut a man together in four hours. You cannot cut a landing together.
A documentary can be switched off. The work cannot.

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

I have no time for him either, or for anything he dresses up as a documentary. It is a money-making proposition, just as you said, built on fabricated stories and zero respect. Courts move slowly, and I don't know that Elon has the hours to spend there. That does not make what Galloway did any less disgusting. It only shows how small he is next to a man who actually builds.
Thanks for the support👏🏽

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

I thought for a long time whether the leftover packaging of a used-up product was even worth my comment. But let this reach him.

Scott Galloway is the kind of man who fell before he was born. No moral spine, just concrete packed into his own tight little bubble. He still thinks he can blow cigarette smoke straight into Elon's face. Mr. Galloway, once you've disgraced yourself, you stay disgraced.

You will never come up to Elon's ankles. Elon builds what other people only talk about: rockets that return, a network that finds people when ordinary phones go silent, companies that pull the future closer. You sit in a studio, light a cigarette, and try to look taller by calling him a traitor. That isn't courage. That's a small man measuring himself against a giant and hoping the smoke hides the difference.

This man is like cigarette smoke. When you light up, everyone sees him, and no one can stay in his company for long without choking. When the cigarette goes out, he tries to pass himself off as a volcano. He is still just a butt left on a bigger boss's desk.

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

Michigan was never Arab, and it never will be. You were just elected to represent an American state, not to rename it.

Mr. Abdul, your prayer rug is a meter by a meter and a half. Michigan is a good deal larger than that!

[Fox News @FoxNews]

“Michigan is the capital of Arab America.”

Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed makes the claim during remarks in Washington, D.C., pointing to Michigan’s large Arab American population.

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

He says Washington is the capital of the United States, but Michigan is the capital of "Arab America." No. Michigan was not Arab, and it will not be Arab. Mr. Abdul, your prayer rug is only a meter by a meter and a half. A United States senator represents a state, not a parallel country drawn on a prayer mat.

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

@MBielava44540dx @elonmusk 🥰🥰These little Elons are adorable

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

@elonmusk It's a very good sign. They just won, and they are already tearing into their own leaders. A movement that cannot stop even after victory will spend its power on itself.

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

@JamesSmithiq It’s nice when there are people who appreciate it like this❤️

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

I'm honestly in awe of Starlink. Five people stuck in the snowy mountains of Kazakhstan with a broken car and no mobile network, and they still got a call out. Rescuers found them and brought all five home. This technology keeps doing something that still feels a little like magic, except it's real.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Starlink helped save five people stranded in Kazakhstan’s snowy mountains. ♥️

Their SUV broke down about 15 km from the village of Kystau Kurchum. There was no mobile network they could use. Starlink got their call for help through and kept them in touch with rescuers, who used the connection to find them.

Crews drove about 100 km in an all-terrain vehicle and brought all five safely back to the village.

For people stranded far from help, Starlink can be lifesaving technology.

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

@JamesSmithiq Constructive criticism is fine. Unfortunately, the theatrical drama that Galloway is spreading has become nothing short of a horror show.🫣

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

@silvertonbill In my view, if the media don’t distance themselves from such people and instead continue to ride on their coattails and "promote" one another it will end badly. And before it ends badly for them, they will be a torment to us.

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

@MBielava44540dx He has gone too far. Elon possesses great class and has his own boundaries. This nutcase Galloway is threatening him we know what the consequences can be, given what happened after the attack on Charlie Kirk. Disgusting!

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

@FaithStorey Thanks, Faith – that loser Galloway reminds me of a cigarette butt🤣

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

@FaithStorey @SeaBiteX This will be a Golden Heart that will pass through the Golden Gates💛

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

2006. The Mars Society. No Starship yet, just a man and a red planet that wouldn't leave his mind. Twenty years later, nothing about that has changed. Elon never forgets about Mars.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

@CODE_XApp It always warms my heart when Starlink saves people. Thank Tou Brendan⭐

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

@esherifftv Truly adorable. Such a little one looking at the largest rocket in the world – a great shot🤩🥰

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

@TKill0001 Uncle Elon? Then Aunt Natalia has to come along too. We simply must shower this little one with kisses! Sending lots of "Elon-style" kisses💜🩵

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

@FaithStorey This is more than exciting, isn't it?

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

@MBielava44540dx Thank you it will certainly come in handy for taking some kind wishes along with me🫂

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

Suitcase packed. Bag ready.
And a bottle of Prosecco on board.

Elon Club + SpaceX + NASA + USA in one shot – this is what my normal trip packing looks like.

Some people pack the past.
I pack the future.
Multiplanetary civilization starts with small things… even a suitcase.
God bless Elon💜
Mars is waiting.

But for now… just a family trip. With love.

[Natalia Densmore @CommentaryNat]

@elonmusk I'm so grateful this exists. A broken car in the mountains, no mobile network, and five people who still reached rescuers because of Starlink. You built something that finds people the rest of the world would never hear❤️