"We find ourselves at an interesting moment in the streaming wars; one where Amazon's programming policy has apparently shifted to simply giving a massive platform to authority. Last week saw the release of the Melania Trump film (a grating vanity project it paid $75m for) and this week it's our turn, with the platform releasing the King Charles documentary Finding Harmony: A King's Vision. Why Jeff Bezos would want to curry favour with the most powerful people on the planet by paying to air uncritical profiles of them is anyone's guess."
"Either way, as a film, Finding Harmony is intensely frustrating to watch. It is ostensibly a relatively important climate crisis documentary, undone by its own innate sense of chippy entitlement. Perhaps a better title would have been King Charles: Needless to Say I Had the Last Laugh. Running to 90 minutes but feeling much longer, like the sort of thing designed to run on a loop in the background of a conference the core message of Finding Harmony is that the world is in trouble, but only because we didn't listen to the king."
Amazon has recently given large platforms to powerful figures, releasing a Melania Trump film and the King Charles documentary Finding Harmony: A King's Vision. Jeff Bezos's decision to air uncritical profiles of influential people raises questions about motivations. Finding Harmony aims to be a climate crisis documentary but is undermined by an entitled, fawning tone. Kate Winslet narrates a portrait of a man who foresaw environmental collapse decades ago, championed organic food, and was dismissed as a lunatic before his ideas became mainstream. The film argues that the world is in trouble because people failed to heed the king's warnings, producing frustration rather than persuasion.
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