In the preceding post I mentioned the 2018 chess documentary, "Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi vs. Karpov and the Kremlin". It's short, so I took a short vacation from normal life to watch. As a comment to the aforementioned post suspects, the narrative is, unsurprisingly, slanted in Korchnoi's favor - and why wouldn't it be? But it's not portrayed as saint vs. devil. Viktor Korchnoi's prickliness is acknowledged by all, and it does not ignore the fact that he abandoned his family. And while Anatoly Karpov is portrayed as opportunistically accepting every advantage that his Soviet supporters could bestow on him, he is presented with humanity, and he is one of the major participants in the documentary, as an interviewee. Near the end of the film, he is painted in a somewhat sympathetic life - at least after he lost his title.
It's difficult for me to know exactly how someone who doesn't already know the story and have long-standing opinions about the dramatis personae would see it. I don't think they'd come away from it hating Karpov or believing that Korchnoi is the embodiment of goodness and light, though they probably would see Korchnoi as a man with an admirably strong fighting spirit, and this helped him not only as a competitor but as a survivor in life.
Should those of you who know the story well already watch it? There's a good chance you won't learn anything new, but many of you are probably young enough to learn quite a bit. And it's always fun to see all the old footage of these players, not to mention contemporary interviews with Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, Boris Gelfand and other greats reflecting on the match and its participants. So, crack open your wallets and spend 99 cents over on Amazon to watch a tale of one of the two most important matches of the previous century.