There’s a consensus that what Brooks did at every stage of his career was so fresh and unique that there was nothing to compare it to. The movie’s best achievement is arranging the pieces of Brooks’ life and art so that we can see not just the consistently high quality of it all but Brooks’ creative integrity as he moved through it. Brooks (who was born Albert Einstein; yes, really) insisted on doing everything his way, not out of defiance or pure ego, but because, as he explains it, alternatives never occurred to him. “I only saw one road!” he exclaims.
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