Watching Prince Harry's new documentary Heart of Invictus, you can't help but wonder if he's having an identity crisis
Watching Prince Harry’s new documentary Heart of Invictus, you can’t help but wonder if he’s having an identity crisisYou can’t steer clear for long. After the much-publicised demise of their $20m podcast contract with Spotify,are back on the cultural scene, attempting to carve out new identities for themselves as they navigate what they think is the real world. This time, Archewell Productions – a name derived from their son’s – are back on Netflix, with whom a $50m deal was forged in 2020.
, an interview show with great leaders of the world such as Jacinda Ardern and Greta Thunberg. Now, they present, a five-part documentary about the Invictus Games, a sports event founded in 2014 by Prince Harry for disabled, injured or wounded veterans., with likeable characters such as Yuliia “Taira” Paievska, a volunteer paramedic in Ukraine, and Tom Folwell, who served for the British army in Iraq and Afghanistan, at its heart .
At one point in the show, he is in front of the camera and the interviewer asks, clearly rather pleased with themselves, “what do you do?”. He looks slightly surprised – he’s just Harry, he’s not used to being asked this – and then replies that “one wears lots of hats”. The question, really, is whether any of them fit – and the one he’s got on at the moment, making Netflix documentaries, looks to be a little too tight.
He’s not the first celebrity to make films about the things that have been most personally affecting to him – every pop star under the sun seems to have made one in recent years – but, pre-empting the haters, Harry manages largely to keep himself out of things in the show. That is, except for the claim, about which people are now up in arms, that the British press doesn’t report enough on the heroes who give their lives and limbs for crown and country.
But other than that, and the moving stories of some of the people on it, you do wonder why this is a five-hour job. The answer, of course, is The Deal. For $50m, this has got to be really, really good telly. And, unfortunately, it’s not quite there. Since the Invictus Games is a long-established success, there isn’t a lot of urgency in the documentary., of “Daddy make work” – creating pointless tasks for somebody so they look and feel more important.
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