The World According to Sesame Street
My girlfriend rented this one. I had not heard of it before. But almost every kid that grew up with a television set in the house also grew up with Sesame Street. So most people will have some immediate connection to the subject.
The subject is that the company that runs Sesame Street is trying to make it so that every kid in the world can grow up with Sesame Street, arguing that good educational programming is important. And they don't just want to import the American Sesame Street. They want each culture to have their own version of it, with its own characters and locales reflecting the immediate culture. They want to empower people within their own cultures to teach important school subjects as well as important social and moral lessons.
It's a noble cause and interesting to see how they go about it. But the documentary eventually lost it's grip on me. Not that there weren't important things going on in the world of the film, but I just couldn't get hooked. Maybe the film kept its distance on the things that would have been more interesting and indulged too much in the stuff that the filmmakers thought was interesting but got boring quickly. I don't feel like thinking about it too much more than that.
Rating: 5/10