Elvis Documentary Comes For 'The King' — And Does Not Miss
Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki masterfully explores Presley's life as a metaphor for America as he drives the late singer's 1963 Rolls-Royce across the country, interviewing those he meets along the way.
"Not another Elvis movie," you scream at the heavens in the year 2018. "The man's been dead for four decades. Every part of him has been strip-mined for white-nostalgia money already. My parents just dragged me to the touring production of Million Dollar Quartet. Show some mercy, people."
First of all: point taken. Secondly: don't be cruel. You haven't seen The King yet. And you're going to want to. Oh, yes.
Eugene Jarecki's latest documentary is a hunk-a, hunk-a burning zeitgeist, the kind of movie that just might shake you from your sleep at night weeks later. Far from an HBO greatest-hits biography, dares to use Elvis Presley as a
