My overall impression
You recognize his voice. Bill Ratner, the ever-present omniscient narrator in countless documentaries, video games, and movie trailers – the fucking voice of GI Joe and God, has decided it’s time he use his trade to tell his own story. To be sure, he has had an interesting life, and there’s an instant familiarity – a bond – listening to this anonymous voice subconsciously woven into the fabric of our day to day lives then become, for the first time, real. He actually talks! And he talks off-script. Ratner spends the most effective parts of his performance on glimpses of his career foreshadowed in his childhood. He speaks of his fascination with media as a boy and recalls his first announcer with a voice “deep, calm, and highly intelligent.” He would spend hours sucking at the “glass teat” of the TV screen, absorbing voice and image, before launching his own radio station with neighborhood kids who would broadcast to each other late into the night …
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