Jeff Bezos gives yet another powerful person an uncritical profile. The point of this one: if we’d listened to the king, there would be no climate crisis – even if some of his ideas are strangely trippy
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e 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. He is, we are told via Kate Winslet’s awestruck narration, “a man who has spent a lifetime building harmony”, which might come as a surprise to anyone who has read Prince Harry’s book.
