jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy

Jeen-yuhs is an exceptional, engrossing documentary that peels back the accumulated layers of Kanye West’s career and celebrity, revealing the hungry creative at his core.

Is your preferred archetype of Kanye the hungry, deeply focused, self-made scrapper who showed everybody? Or the openly bipolar billionaire whose run for president felt more like a box to check on a list of Ultimate Hubris moments than anything even half-seriously intended? Both Kanyes are on view in “Jeen-yuhs,” with a story that necessarily comes off deeply bifurcated, given that a plot is something West would seem to have lost along the way. But what a Horatio Alger story it is.

The opening act, titled “Vision”, will have you feeling all manner of things towards Kanye West – most of them good.

If Visions is anything to go by, jeen-yuhs excels as a profile of an embryonic artist whose flight towards the sun just hasn’t burned his wings yet.

At times it works, as West gazes at negative news clips about him on his phone. It’s in these moments that Jeen-Yuhs achieves the previously unthinkable: cocky and ultra confident he might be, West is human, too.

The first installment, vision, is the most interesting and entertaining, mostly by virtue of catching West at an embryonic stage of unguarded ambition. ... The film’s final installment, awakening, offers an uneasy, very incomplete portrait of the star’s rocky experiences leading up to the pandemic, plagued by public speculation about his mental state. ... Any documentary about his life will become outdated sometime between pressing play and watching the credits roll. This one has big holes long before that.

The frustrating part is that "Jeen-Yus" never sufficiently illuminates the path that led us here.

It's impressive that The College Dropout, despite being a timeless album and one of the most influential in rap, consecrating Ye as a legend, had a production accompanied by a camera. This documentary is inspiring in every way, and I think that's enough... Everything is very well done, good narration in most parts (the problem is that Coodie occasionally wants to change the subject or just wants to talk about himself, which in this documentary only makes sense at the beginning (note: The documentary is already very good for those who don't know Kanye or his work, but for those who do, it's simply perfect... which is the target audience, I think).

Heartfelt and very detailed doc that focuses on Kanye's beginnings and ends up in his current self. Recommended

kanye?? not destroy lonely so he gets and 8

Beautifully shows the beginnings of the greatest artist of are generation, Kanye West.