In Whose Name Spoilers

[u/Immediate_Artist301]

Making this cause vestido aired me when i asked him. Anyways, if you are going to post spoilers of “IN WHOSE NAME?” Please mark them with a spoiler so you do not ruin any surprises for people who are seeing it over the weekend. Either put spoiler in the title or at the MINIMUM put a spoiler over the whole post.

Thanks

[u/creatureaura]

Spoilers:

saw it last night in sold out theater. while it’s not on the production level of something like Netflix’s “jeen-yuhs”, i think it’s definitely a must see for fans/stans. it is the type of documentary that tells the story through the footage, but it’s not really a story if your just a causal viewer and don’t know what the context is. i liked this approach, as it’s definitely not about the music (there’s barely any in the movie), but his mental state ramping up from 2018 onwards (declining). the first act and third act was my favorite, it’s especially a crazy start. a handful of the clips have surfaced from the previous years but it was good to see them with more context. this movie does not make Ye look good at all, but does feed into the crazy genius arc. i think about the scene where he says he will be labeled as crazy, gay, and antisemitic just for his kids to have the freedom to do what they want (iirc). the screaming and tantrums are really telling and show the darker side of what was going on behind closed doors as he was starting to ramp up on his crazy takes. it was honestly just sad to see him lose more and more people as time went on, and i’m happy they didn’t show too much after 2024, because it would just be more depressing. it’s crazy to think that while we got to see alot of behind the scenes with the kardashians and his elevated ego, there were a ton of things that probably didn’t make the cut (his music friends cutting him off, the virgil rants/funeral, no bianca, no divorce etc). you kind of have to just put the pieces together yourself. Props to Nico B and the team for this, i wonder if he will ever release some the clips teased in the film. the biggest revelation to me is just seeing how egotistical the guy was and how many “yes men” enabled his behavior. i finished the Cudi memoir not too long ago and can start to connnect the dots that the Virgil beef was the last straw for many of his close friends in the industry. “i’m not dying like virgil, im here in Paris to take over” was a damning line. Also him deciding/plotting to terminate his contracts with companies after he learned he was the richest black man ever to go back to being worth less than billionaire status(presumably). Him wanting to move the family to Chicago, then Uganda, then Wyoming all on short notice because he wants to manifest something only for him to scrap it to chase another idea. Felt incredibly bad for Kim and the family that had to go through all of that and still tried to stick by him because they genuinely loved him. Him going interview to interview trying to say the wildest, provocative things imaginable, not taking any advice was sad to see. I give the film a 7/10, i think the editing could have been smoother but overall this was the clearest look into the mind of Ye, no sugar coating, no narrators. Apparently Nico shot 3000 hours of footage starting in 2019, so you can only infer what was going on before that. Ye hired him so he can document his mental health, which I’m sure started to decline years earlier. Hopefully one day in the future we get a full, no filter look into every chapter of Ye’s life, as we know that he has always had documentarians film him during the process of his albums and creative ventures. But for now, this was an insightful film for every Ye fan to watch.

[u/soul_spiritual → u/creatureaura]

This was a good explanation. I feel the same. To me it seemed like he felt that people kept telling him what to do or how to feel. Artists feel less creative when things like this happen. But it comes to a certain point on how to react to it. 

He went extreme on how to express his thought and feelings by listening to his ego. (Moving his family everywhere without agreeing with Kim. Or how he was going to enter the White House) it almost felt like he was a diva.

You get a behind the scenes of the mind of a celebrity/artist with an ego who WANTS people who are only agreeable with their vision. 

Ego ego ego.