‘Meru’ is a riveting portrait of obsession
There’s a fine line between determination and obsession, and it’s often ambiguous as to where the subjects of Meru, a new documentary about three men’s ambition to climb one of the world’s most treacherous mountains, find themselves. In fact, it often seems as if the men themselves don’t know, nor do their families, and it barely seems to matter: they have their fixations, and they will remain as such regardless of how they’re classified.