McLuhan Documentary: McLuhan's Wake

McLuhan's "Medium is the Message" is an article that has been relative to many of my courses throughout college and will definitely be a huge reference for me during my colloqium.  I've always been a fan of his work, finding it very relative to a lot of the issues that technology is bringing up, decades after the work was written.

However I found myself frustrated by "McLuhan's Wake," the documentary we watched in class that was created by his son.  The documentary only slightly discusses McLuhan's life and instead, very abstractly, looks at McLuhan's theories, almost too abstractly in my opinion.  I spend a lot of the film trying to figure out what everything meant and less about McLuhan as a person or about his concepts.  What I would have really liked to see was a discussion of McLuhan's ideas in a more concrete, direct manner -- more biographical information that would clue the viewer in more to who McLuhan was and how his persona relates to his philosophies.