Director Brett Morgen, biographer of Kurt Cobain, brings the essence of the pop star who transformed rock standards into “Moonage Daydream”
SPECIAL FOR THE STATE – It starts with a press release dated David Bowie. “God died, and it was man who killed him, to take his place. But if God’s creation is imperfect, man’s creation is even more so. How to fill the void, and more, what is the meaning of life? ”For a long time, Bowie seems to have been consumed by this fundamental question. She goes through the film Brett Morgen which opens this Thursday, 15th, in theaters. It can be seen in Imax. daydream about the moon aims to be a audiovisual experience. Maybe it’s a bit long, almost two and a half hours, but it’s definitely a dazzling show.
Morgen already has a biography Kurt Cobain. He is drawn to the world of music – rock – and some exceptional destinations. If it were possible to apply the onion theory to the film, the conclusion would be obvious. daydream about the moon It has layers and layers. Bowie starts the film as an enigma, a sphinx. “Decipher me or I’ll devour you.” Male / female, yin / yang. To the presenter who asks him about mutations, does Bowie wear extravagant clothes and makeup to stand out from the crowd? The artist offers a more complex answer. In the mass world, he is affirming individuality. What matters to him is the individual. And the wedge shoes, are they for men or women? “They’re just shoes, silly,” Bowie says.
Identity
Bowie pioneered the affirmation of identity. He may not have made up the question LGBTQ +, but it has certainly contributed to a declaration of identity on a global level. In one show, the fan explains: “You don’t have to be a cigarette to wear makeup.” In subsequent interviews, Bowie never shuns the questions that try to reveal his identity. One of the most revealing moments – the most? -it is when he talks about his stepbrother, Terry, visceral in his upbringing of him. He opened his head giving him the book of Jack Kerouac, on the road. Terry has been missing for seasons. One day he returned with the diagnosis of schizophrenia. He has become your nightmare: what if your search drives you to madness?
daydream about the moon it is an explosion – of images, sounds, ideas. On stage, Bowie is always changing, reinventing himself, to find out who he is. At 33, he says he’s unsure of anything. At 35, he thinks he has achieved a certain balance. At 45 he made the great discovery. Life is too short to waste. He doesn’t want to miss a single day. He embarks on a tour of England and the East. Critics of him complain: the times of audacity are behind us. Bowie delivers what his audience expects of him. He is opposed. He always did what he wanted, without worrying about satisfying others. But he was contradictory. Raised in a loveless family, where parents couldn’t show affection, he sings about love without feeling it. Denying relationships. The arrival of Iman in your life will change all of this.
He has made important and extraordinary films – The man who fell to earthin Nicolas Roeg, hunger for lovein Tony Scott, Furyo, In the name of honorin Nagisa Oshima, etc. Cinema is an important part of his life and his work. It helped him define who he is. There are many quotes to Luis Bunuel, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Fred And Ginger. A metaphor is very interesting. Whenever Bowie tries to explain himself, the camera pans towards a wall. No way out, no way out. When he goes out – as an entertainer, as a married man – the corridor leads to an elevator. The door closes on him. Bowie in a box? Not to mention the flu, it can be said that Brett Morgen and Bowie himself have seen Pink fluid in The wall, 1982. Alan Parker’s rock opera tells the story of a musician in crisis, who travels between past and present. Projected into the future, it reflects on the development of fascism. Bowie offers his analysis of the law and what it takes to attempt to overcome it, a current issue that Brett Morgen tackles with critical vigor.
For The New York Timesthe director said he would never have imagined daydream about the moon like a traditional documentary, but an engaging experience. After eight months of writing the script, he flew to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Bowie shot Nic Roeg’s science fantasy. got a copy of The hero of a thousand faces, by Giuseppe Campbell. “I started thinking about the Iliad, and it was the compass to understand David’s journey. Not so dissimilar, but this man lived by creating storms for himself.” Nothing defines the film he made better.
Source: Terra
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