{"id":490367,"date":"2022-09-05T02:38:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T23:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-icarus-the-aftermath-review-doping-doc-sequel-takes-on-russia\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T02:38:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T23:38:02","slug":"watch-icarus-the-aftermath-review-doping-doc-sequel-takes-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-icarus-the-aftermath-review-doping-doc-sequel-takes-on-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Icarus: The Aftermath&#8217; Review: Doping Doc Sequel Takes on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35a92d14fbc\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35a92d14fbc\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-icarus-the-aftermath-review-doping-doc-sequel-takes-on-russia\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Icarus_The_Aftermath_Review_Doping_Doc_Sequel_Takes_on_Russia%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Icarus: The Aftermath&#8217; Review: Doping Doc Sequel Takes on Russia&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-icarus-the-aftermath-review-doping-doc-sequel-takes-on-russia\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Icarus_The_Aftermath_Review_Doping_Doc_Sequel_Takes_on_Russia%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Icarus: The Aftermath&#8217; Review: Doping Doc Sequel Takes on Russia&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Icarus_The_Aftermath_Review_Doping_Doc_Sequel_Takes_on_Russia%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Icarus: The Aftermath&#8217; Review: Doping Doc Sequel Takes on Russia&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Icarus_The_Aftermath_Review_Doping_Doc_Sequel_Takes_on_Russia%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Icarus: The Aftermath&#8217; Review: Doping Doc Sequel Takes on Russia&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Most of the time, documentaries don\u2019t get sequels, which is strange. Unlike their <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ed fiction counterparts, the story doesn\u2019t end when the cameras stop rolling. If you\u2019ve ever attended a filmmaker Q&amp;A after the screening of a great documentary, you know the first question from the audience is almost inevitably either \u201cWhat\u2019s happened since?\u201d or \u201cWhere are they now?\u201d Bryan Fogel must have heard that more times than he can count in the five years since his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>-changing Russian sports doping doc \u201cIcarus\u201d won the Academy Award. \u201cIcarus: The Aftermath\u201d is his response, a daring and sure-to-be-divisive movie that\u2019s even more shocking than the 2017 original, even if the big <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> is already out of the bag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cThe Aftermath\u201d follows Russian whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov \u2014 former head of the Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA \u2014 for five years, embedding itself in the paranoid new reality that awaits him in the West after revealing inside knowledge of the elaborate conspiracy by the Russian sports establishment to cover up its use of performance-enhancing drugs. Incredible and enraging in equal doses, the project plays like a tense spy thriller as Rodchenkov is assigned a security team and shuffled from one safe house to another, while enemies of the state \u2014 Sergei Skripal and Alexei Navalny \u2014 are poisoned with the Russian nerve agent Novichok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In retrospect, it\u2019s kind of amazing that Fogel got the scoop in the first place. The point of his original documentary had been broader: to demonstrate that pretty much anyone could fool a doping test. \u201cIcarus\u201d was conceived as a \u201cSuper Size Me\u201d-style stunt, of which Fogel planned to serve as his own guinea pig, taking the drugs himself and finding a way to pass. At some point in the process, he reached out to Rodchenkov and struck gold \u2014 the scientist had been suffering an ethical crisis for some time and decided to come clean \u2014 and Fogel reshaped his film around those bombshell revelations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    For the director, becoming the custodian of Rodchenkov\u2019s secret presented an enormous personal responsibility: \u201cIcarus\u201d put his new friend\u2019s life in danger, which meant that Fogel essentially had to help engineer his defection to the West, after which Rodchenkov was forced into hiding (for his own protection). During this process, Fogel obtained permission to keep filming. One cameraman, Jake Swantko, was allowed to shadow Rodchenkov, an exuberant, heavy-drinking character who tries his best to maintain some kind of optimism, even though it\u2019s clear he\u2019d essentially traded his freedom for a clear con<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    And to what end? Shortly after the first film was released, the Olympic committee suspended Russia. That certainly sent a statement, though in practice, the penalty was mostly for show: At the next Olympic Games, Russian athletes continued to compete in certain sports (like hockey). A short time later, the Court of Arbitration for Sports reduced the ban from four years to two. Russia, it seems, was too big to bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Meanwhile, Rodchenkov had become a political target. Talking heads went on Russian state TV and insisted that he be imprisoned or shot. Putin gave an interview in which he said, \u201cIn <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>, treason is the greatest crime on Earth. And traitors should be punished.\u201d No wonder Rodchenkov fears for his life. (In 2016, Rodchenkov\u2019s No. 2 at RUSADA, Nikita Kamaev, died of a suspicious heart attack.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In witness-protection sequences that may remind audiences of their own time in quarantine, Swantko films Rodchenkov drinking, exercising and dyeing his hair. The refugee makes video calls to his wife Veronika back in Russia, but the relationship is in trouble. Will they ever be united again? For a time, there\u2019s a very real threat that Russia could attempt to extradite Rodchenkov back to stand trial. He applies for political asylum and considers undergoing plastic surgery. Reuniting with Veronika does not seem possible, lending a dimension of tragedy to their four-decade romance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    To keep from going crazy, Rodchenkov writes in his diary, which opens up one of the film\u2019s most exciting subplots. It turns out, he\u2019s kept detailed journals for almost 40 years, which are safely stashed somewhere in Russia. \u201cIcarus: The Aftermath\u201d shifts from spy thriller to heist movie for a spell, as Rodchenkov\u2019s legal team sends an agent to retrieve these books, which corroborate his claims (which are reenacted via unattractive animated sequences). Since it\u2019s easy enough for Putin to insist that they were all fabricated recently, Fogel films forensic scientists authenticating the journals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cThe problem of Russia is that no one can tell the truth,\u201d Rodchenkov explains, insisting, \u201cI\u2019m not against Russia. I\u2019m against systematic lying.\u201d Remember, \u201cIcarus\u201d began as a film about cheating in sports; \u201cThe Aftermath\u201d is a much bigger story, taking on the dishonesty, violence and intimidation of a corrupt regime. Say what you will about Rodchenkov and his motives (the Russian TV clips are brutal in this regard), but there\u2019s something undeniably heroic in the sacrifices he makes to challenge Putin\u2019s power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The movie introduces others who feel the same, such as Yuri Ganus, new head of RUSADA, whom Fogel first interviews at the Play the Game sports conference. Despite enormous pressure from Putin and the Russian public, Ganus sincerely attempts to clean up the system. His efforts are not appreciated, to say the least, to the extent that Fogel asks Ganus whether he would also like to flee Russia at one point. Considering how central Fogel had made himself in \u201cIcarus,\u201d there\u2019s surprising little of him in the follow-up. That makes it all the more powerful to observe the filmmaker in scenes where he and Rodchenkov are reunited. The earlier film had clearly bonded these two men for life. Coming clean in \u201cIcarus\u201d may have been a moral victory for Rodchenkov, but in many ways, this friendship is all he has to show for it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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