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The common thread is mass production of stories journalists and urban liberals would find emotionally satisfying rather than factually edifying.

There’s nothing here that the viewer can’t glean from the documentary, and in fact, the doc is a far more edifying and affecting work than Safdie’s stylish regurgitation.

Brooks insists on seeing all this as an edifying story of a nation’s rise, albeit with a few bumps in the road.

But it’s an edifying experience, hurtling forward with only the mighty light of intrepid wonder to guide us.

It’s also a central pillar of the pair’s edifying new sitcom.