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I'm not sure I one hundred percent buy the story as Mistaken For Strangers (the new documentary about the band The National as told through the eyes of the lead singer's nobody brother) is selling it - a lot feels oh let's say "nurtured" instead of "manipulated" in the editing room and possibly probably on the shooting end too - how hard would it have been for Tom Berninger to just give himself or his rock star brother several takes on these "off the cuff" developments, anyway? It's pretty clear that somebody with real skill, possibly Mr. Berninger but probably somebody else, whittled this thing down to the rousing underdog story it is today. (And that somebody is a somebody who's most certainly seen American Movie or The King of Kong or any other similar losers-get-their-moment docs from the past several years.) But a rousing underdog story it is, if you can sidestep your side-eye and get lost in its puppy-eyed momentum. And loving The National like I do - there aren't a lot of bands that have their own tags here at MNPP, so they should know I stand with them, not against them - this feels like exactly the sort of rock doc that ought to have been made about them.
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