Kurt Cobain About a Son

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i already d I have to say that a huge number of reviewers have me wondering if we watched the same film... Such vapid, attentionless thoughts; most complain the cinemaphotography and stills and score/songs for this documentary had nothing to do with interview audio with Kurt. Nothing is further from the truth. I've seen very few documentaries as creatively realized as this one is, and certainly none that cover musical artists. Perhaps it helps me, as a viewers, to be from WA state and to have lived in (or visited often) many of the locales that were filmed here. This is not a "Microsoft screensaver" as someone mentioned; this is the brilliant work of the filmmakers presenting visuals that attempt to represent all the places and things, people and faces, bands and songs and problems and issues that Kurt would have seen and experienced throughout the life he describes in the interview. Once in a while they're hurt a bit only because they're more contemporary (early-to-mid 2000s) than what Kurt would have experienced (80s-to-90s). Even down to never really hearing a Nirvana/Cobain song throughout was an exceptional choice; rather than the band's cover song that was hugely popular, for instance, we instead hear the original song "Man Who Sold the World" by Bowie, like Kurt would have. Any song or style or image seen is something spoken about in real-time in the interview... it's wonderful and immersive. I really get the feeling a lot folks simply didn't understand what they were seeing. If so, I wish they'd see it again and let go of wanting to see "rare footage", or "lost photographs" of the band and Kurt whilst coming up. Every documentary about a music personality does things that way; this documentary did something entirely different and I for one adored it. I was never a super-fan of Kurt or Nirvana by any means, but this was a mesmerizing, deeply personal and superbly realized hour and thirty minutes about this man. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Hearing the man himself and his personal account was so cool. The visuals, however, might as well have been an microsoft screen saver. The filmmakers here had absolutely no imagination. It would have been better to watch a black screen with captioning. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Even though it's just a bunch of videos and images shown with the recordings of Kurt's interviews, it gives a perspective about his early life, heard from his own lips with pictures of places trying to make you visualize what was it like to live through what he was talking about. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member This is not a movie, this is an audio interview with some annoying visuals and completely unrelated songs. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member A poetic and profound document to Kurt Cobain, based on audio interviews and newly captured video. Well-constructed and allows an insight into the environment Kurt grew up within. I reckon you should see it! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review david f This film consists of interview tapes of Kurt Cobain talking about himself over imagery from the Pacific Northwest where he lived all his life. If you're interested in the subject you'll probably enjoy this film but if not there really isn't a compelling reason to watch it. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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