Thank you, Todd Haynes, for understanding that the key to making an accurate documentary is to immerse the viewer into the world and Zeitgeist of the people one is documenting. I was riveted from start to finish - which was a welcome surprise, considering I almost passed up on watching it completely after having just struggled through the first 25 minutes of the woefully banal 'Bruce Being King' Springsteen & his band documentary which is listed next to it on Apple TV (BTW note to THAT director; in this day and age, making an entire movie - let alone a documentary - in black and white is a ludicrous pretention with absolutely no justification), and was at the point of practically dying of boredom before the first few frames of Velvet Underground fortunately revived me. Transformer, for sure.
Review of The Velvet Underground
