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.
I do not agree that Europe should move toward dual systems.
British universities are already advertising “interest-free” Sharia-compliant student loans for the 2026–27 academic year. The scheme (Alternative Student Finance) uses a Takaful mutual fund: students receive the same tuition and living support as everyone else, then make income-based “contributions” that are ring-fenced to finance future students on the same programme not returned to the Treasury.
It is officially open to anyone, but designed for those who cannot take interest-bearing loans for religious reasons.
Elon has repeatedly warned how destructive bad incentives are. Systems that reward certain groups and behaviours while discouraging others produce predictable results.
Here we are creating special accommodations for populations with higher fertility and parallel rules, while native Europe receives no meaningful incentives to reverse its own collapse in birth rates.
This is not neutrality. It is the deliberate construction of two systems side by side. Europe either has one set of rules for everyone, or it gradually stops being itself.
Incentives work. Bad incentives work faster. 🇬🇧
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🚨 BOOM: Marco Rubio's State Department has declared Lebanon's top diplomat in Michigan persona non grata and BOOTED HIM FROM THE COUNTRY over posts celebrating the Islamist Hezbollah-linked bombing that k*lled 241 American servicemen in Beirut
GOOD FREAKING RIDDANCE 👋🏻
Lebanon's consul general in Detroit, Ibrahim Charara, was given until 8AM Sunday to leave the United States!
Marco made the right move here.
"A visa is a privilege not a right. Anyone in the United States who celebrates or justifies terrorist attacks has no place in our country." 🇺🇸
American believes there is likely no way to avoid a civil war because of the alliance of Muslims and Liberals
“Why would they want to conquer Texas? Well, if you think about it, agriculture, border, oil, landmass. If they can conquer Texas, they're taking us all down. I started having conversations with people and they're like, I don't know how we get the horse back into the barn at this point.
And the cowboys are like, if the police and politicians won't stand up, we're going to have to fight. And ultimately, I think that we're going to have to fight to save our country. I think we're going to head into another civil war.
Because you have 1.2% Muslims, but you have 53% of the crazy progressive liberals backing them up, helping them get elected. And that's exactly what happened in 1979 Iran — In 1979, they were bankers, lawyers, doctors. They could wear bikinis. They were secular. They were Jewish. They were Christian. They were Catholic. And I guess you've got the same woman who like the liberals who think they don't have enough freedom. So they assisted the IRGC thinking they would get more freedom. And once they completely took over and women were fully covered, they executed about 30,000 of them. So these people don't realize that they're just a pawn in their game”
People don’t realize this wasn’t that long ago, this happened in the 80s. The same people are alive and haven’t stopped planning our takeover and the results will be the same. They will take up over and start executing us
If you use AI to ask who would win a civil war, it’s conservatives by a landslide
Muslim rape gangs in Britain are one of the worst scandals of the 21st century.
In Telford alone, over 1,000 girls many aged 11 to 14 were raped, trafficked and abused for decades. There was even a “rape house” where victims were taken. The perpetrators were overwhelmingly men of Pakistani heritage.
Rotherham: around 1,400 victims. Rochdale, Oxford, Newcastle the same pattern. Police and authorities knew. They often did nothing because they feared being called racist.
Operation Chalice in Telford: hundreds of victims identified, dozens arrested, only a handful convicted. Many received shockingly short sentences.
This is not a conspiracy theory. These are the findings of official inquiries, reported by the BBC, The Telegraph and The Guardian. Facts.
The worst part is the silence and political correctness that protected the abusers at the expense of children.
In Telford, 1000+ underage children were held in a "Rape House" where they were gang-raped, tortured, and abused by Muslim men.
Despite hundreds being identified and 67 being arrested, only 7 were convicted. Russell Brand received a longer sentence than all but two of them.
@FaithStorey The world is still silent. If not for X, none of us would know about this scandal, or about so many others the mainstream media chose to ignore. Truth needs a platform, and this is it.
@MBielava44540dx@megynkelly@elonmusk Hate is loud, but light is stronger Elon lit a light for millions of people around the world, and we will never let it go out. Thank you for standing up, Marzanna🧡❤️
You wrote something that is the key between true humanity and consciousness. I agree with every insightful sentence.
Psychology has long known that we fall in love with what we don't fully know. Curiosity, anticipation and imagination are what make attraction last. When everything is shown at once, the mind has nothing left to discover, and desire burns fast and fades even faster.
Your alien AI would probably conclude that humans are starving for connection while feeding on stimulation. Lots of dopamine, very little meaning. And maybe the real sign of an advanced civilization is not how much it can show, but how much it can leave unsaid 🌌
Imagine aliens studying us solely through our digital channels. They would see a species that can be looked at, yet has all but forgotten how to truly see. From a psychological perspective, being genuinely noticed is one of our deepest needs far more profound than merely being looked at. A thousand "likes" on a photo cannot compare to a single person who looks you in the eye and stays there.
Mystery is not the same as modesty or shame; it is a tribute to the depth of another human being. It serves as a reminder that there is always more to a person than what meets the eye at first glance.
If an alien intelligence ever studied us, I think they would be confused. Why is a species capable of poetry, music, and love reduced to a scrolling feed full of skin and noise? The answer is simple, and a bit sad: attention has become currency, and silence has ceased to be profitable.
But the human psyche hasn't changed. We still need pauses, glances, unfinished sentences, and things we discover slowly. Mystery creates closeness, and closeness creates meaning. A civilization that wants to reach the stars should first learn to look into a face for longer than a second.
@MBielava44540dx It truly is, Marzanna. And the most horrifying part is that so many people in charge knew and looked away. Those girls deserved protection, not silence 💔
@JaneteMota1 Thank you, Janete 🧡
No, I didn’t change my last name. When writing about sensitive topics I simply use a pseudonym X’s rules allow that.
I was away for a bit because I had to update my profile. All good now, happy to be back!
@MBielava44540dx@elonmusk I couldn't agree more, Marzanna. There's only one Elon, and the world needs him safe and building 💪🏽❤️ Grateful for voices like yours that keep saying it.