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The Armstrong Lie
Documentary
In 2009, Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong's confession. The Armstrong Lie picks up in 2013 and presents a riveting, insider's view of the unraveling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of sports. As Lance Armstrong says himself, "I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one."
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to investigative documentaries about fame, self-invention, and the uncomfortable collapse of heroic public narratives.
- Tone
- cerebral, tense, bleak
- Payoff
- revelation, unease
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- non-linear
- Themes
- deception, ambition, public image, moral compromise, accountability
- Setting
- early twenty-first century, professional sports world and documentary interview spaces
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