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\n\tThe prospect of spending nearly two unfiltered hours with Kanye West, excuse me, Ye, should fill anyone with dread. But that\u2019s exactly what you get with Nico Ballesteros\u2019 documentary, six years in the making and edited down from some 3,000 hours of raw footage. This documentary portrait of the hip-hop superstar certainly delivers what it promises \u2014 an unflinching look showcasing its subject\u2019s many inner demons. But for those not fascinated by the twists and turns of Ye\u2019s clearly disturbed mind, In Whose Name?<\/em> makes for a painful viewing experience.<\/p>\n \n\tThe debuting filmmaker, who began the project when he was just 18 years old, certainly had \u2026 access. He seems to be present for any number of intense personal moments, and how and why he was granted such close proximity is a mystery not addressed in the film. With any other celebrity, it would be surprising. With Ye, it seems just as inexplicable as everything else he does.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tIn Whose Name?\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n \n\t\t\t\t\tThe Bottom Line<\/span> \tLike watching a car crash in slow-mo for two hours. \t\t\t\t\t\t\tRelease date:<\/strong> Friday, September 19 \n\tThe filming, which began in 2018 and ended in 2024 and was largely shot on iPhones, begins with footage of Ye interacting with a seemingly endless procession of celebrities, including Lady Gaga, Drake, LeBron James, Pharrell Williams and, in a moment that hasn\u2019t aged well, Sean Combs. It proceeds to document one outrageous incident after another, and there is no shortage of them, including moments both happy and not with his then-wife Kim Kardashian; they\u2019re seen both bitterly fighting and enjoying a safari in Uganda with their children.<\/p>\n \n\tHis 2018 hosting of Saturday Night Live<\/em>, for which he wore a MAGA hat on camera, is chronicled with backstage footage of him being berated by Swiss Beatz, effusively praised by Chris Rock, and given a dressing-down by a clearly pissed-off Michael Che. Invited to the White House to meet with Donald Trump, Ye insists, \u201cI need to go in exactly the way a foreign dignitary would go in.\u201d We also see footage of the meeting itself, in which Trump seems bemused by encountering someone even crazier than himself.<\/p>\n \n\tHe tells his mother-in-law Kris Jenner, \u201cI\u2019d rather be dead than on medication,\u201d just before erupting in a rage. \u201cMental health is a health issue. It just so happens that it\u2019s on your brain,\u201d he proclaims. He\u2019s seen screaming at relatives and displaying strong signs of paranoia. Meeting with a team of Swiss architects, he informs them, \u201cI am Picasso.\u201d And most disturbingly of all, he seems to enjoy listening to Kenny G\u2019s private rendition of \u201cOver the Rainbow.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThen there\u2019s his plan to build a sustainable city in Wyoming. His aborted presidential run. His bonkers listening party for his album Donda<\/em> at Chicago\u2019s Soldier Field. His backstage meeting with Elon Musk, in which they discuss their respective relationship woes (seeming to demonstrate a direct correlation between massive wealth and power and mental illness). His friendship with right-wing conspiracy theorist Candace Owens. His wearing a \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201d t-shirt (\u201cIt was a joke!\u201d he later insists). His anti-Semitic posts. And so on, and on, and on.<\/p>\n \n\tEventually all the controversy and turmoil comes back to bite him, with corporations cutting him off left and right and his numerous hugely successful product lines in tatters.<\/p>\n \n\tAlthough In Whose Name?<\/em> is pretentiously divided into a prologue and \u201cAct 1, Act 2,\u201d etc., it never achieves real cohesiveness. Although to be fair, when you\u2019re dealing with someone so mercurial, that was probably a lost cause. But Ye does reveal astuteness when he advises his chronicler to apply some shape to the sprawling material. Otherwise, it\u2019s just \u201cone antic to the next antic,\u201d he complains. Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The prospect of spending nearly two unfiltered hours with Kanye West, excuse me, Ye, should fill anyone with dread. But that\u2019s exactly what you get with Nico Ballesteros\u2019 documentary, six years in the making and edited down from some 3,000 hours of raw footage. 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Director:<\/strong> Nico Ballesteros
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