A tumultuous, transformative year in the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is explored in the documentary 'Buzz.'
has made a well-earned name for himself in the world of journalism. But in the concerted effort of his filmmaker friend Andrew Shea to turn the high-powered writer and professed leather-fetishizing cross-dresser into a poster figure for all things gender questioning, the scattershot documentary “Buzz” fumbles the identity-politics ball.
The movie covers a recent year or so when Bissinger was celebrating the 25th anniversary of “Friday Night Lights” with updated material and a book tour,on her memoir , and grappling with a third marriage straining under the behavioral/financial chaos of his quest for his authentic sexual self.
When the focus is his marriage — with wife Lisa a sympathetic figure confused by what their relationship exactly is — “Buzz” hints at emotional complexity. But there’s a sour narcissism to this white, successful, talented man that smacks of a bid for hot-topic relevance rather than a model for how the unseen and uncertain can find peace and acceptance.
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