Review of Derrida

This documentary always already sucks...very intellectually stingy, on the filmmaker's part, but also in regard to the subject. It's still unclear to me just what this production team set out to accomplish. Nothing here made a strong case that Derrida the man, or his brand of ideas warrants a documentary at all. Fans of this major thinker in deconstructionism, post-structurism, post-modernism will be largely disappointed and I suspect a bit offended, or disenchanted, while a few critics of Derrida will gain little more than a small, smug sense of satisfaction, feeling that this incompetent documentary somehow illuminates the over-excitement about Derrida that exists in some circles. As for myself, I generally sympathize with the argument that Derrida can often be deliberately overly obscure, and sometimes pretentious, but do find points of interest in some of his ideas. I would have enjoyed a film that adaquately exposed either of these, but simply have no use for this.