deloudelouvain Review of Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010)

She was a piece of work, whether you like her or not.

[6/10 · 18 April 2020]

I made a mistake watching this documentary, but my bad, I thought it was going to be a stand-up comedy. I just wanted to laugh a bit, certainly not watch a documentary about her life. I know Joan Rivers from seeing her somewhere on television, never really watched anything with her so I had no clue if the comedy would be good or not, and now I still don't know since it was a documentary. There is the odd joke every now and then but nothing where I could judge her comedy level, although she clearly has a funny bone. So about the documentary, it's well done, I'd give them that. I know everything I didn't want to know about Joan Rivers. I know she's really into knowing what people think of her, a bit of an attention seeker if you ask me, so not really a person I would want to meet in real. I know she loved plastic surgery, that's pretty obvious when you see how she looks now, all deformed and alien like. I will never get why women do that to themselves, it's an absolute myth that any men like women that look like that. It makes them look very insecure, fear of aging, and again attention seeking. Again not a woman I want to meet in real life. The absolute irony is her dying from a plastic surgery going wrong, at 81, do you really need more plastic surgery at 81? This documentary is made when she was 75, looking for more jobs, appearances, commercials etcetera, another human being that just doesn't know when to quit the rat race. Again a woman I don't want to know in real life. So I basically watched a documentary about a woman that isn't interesting to me. The only thing I liked of her was that she says anything she wants whenever she wants, politically incorrect or not, for that I appreciate her, but that's about it. Too bad they didn't show more of her jokes and stand-up comedies. Instead I had to endure her mini me, her daughter Melissa, that looks like she will become another woman that I absolutely don't want to meet. The fakeness and drama drips of her, even worse than her mother. I still give this documentary a six because it's well made, I know everything about Joan Rivers now, so you can say it's an accurate documentary. It's just too bad it's useless information. Information I will try to clear from my memory as soon as possible.