This story about Harry Belafonte was good, but long. And by long
I mean extremely long. And by extremely long I mean I couldn't figure out
whether or not it would ever end.
Where the film deserves credit is for the amount of detail which
was included. Harry Belafonte is a singer and an activist. He's worked with
Martin Luther King Jr., President Kennedy, Nelson Mandela and countless others
in order to end racial discrimination. Even today, in his 80s, he hasn't
stopped fighting.
Honestly, I get it. Belafonte was influential and what he's done
is appreciated, but Sing Your Song only
captures a few moments of that. The problem I had with this film is that as I
would start to connect with the subject I would drift into my own thoughts and
moments later, when I jumped back in, I found that I didn't miss much.
It's not that I've heard this particular story before, it's that
I've heard it before in the same exact way. The documentary was too simple and
played things too safe. For such a legendary man, Sing Your Song didn't honor Harry Belafonte in the way he richly
deserves.
