6/10
The life and death of the last rock star
13 June 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Due to being a fan of Nirvana and very interested in the death of Kurt Cobain.When i saw the trailer to the film.I hoped it would go deeper into Cobains life,then the "Cobain bio" Hearvier then heaven.That i feel put to many guises down as "fact" The story:

On April 8th 1994,the body of "Generation X spokesmen"and Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain was found.The ruling was suicide,due to black tar Heroin and a gun shot to the head.The film tries to find out, by asking former "friends and workers" of Cobain and Love,if Cobains wife Courtney Love (who he was going to divorce due to her cheating on him,if he had lived.)Killed her husband. View on the film:

Sadly i feel that the film about half an hour in,stops looking at the music and turns into a battle against Love.This is what i feel breaks the film apart.Some of the many problems of the film is that no one from Geffen or the other two Nirvana members:Krist Noverselick and Dave Grohl (Grohl is in a long-term court battle with Love about ownership of Nirvana music.) are not involved with the film.Broomfield also decides to leave the real (possible) evidence that someone killed Cobain(Cobain had used his credit card a few hours before he died for a flight.)How ever,the film (for me) could have made an interesting case that most rock stars die very young (Brian"Rolling Stones"Jones,Jimi Hendrix,Janis Joplin,Jim"The Doors"Morrison and Cobain all died at age 27.)and the (perhaps)the flaws the the person has,is perhaps one of the things that makes there music more interesting and stronger? Instead Broomfield goes for a very thin conspiracy,that is filed with cartoon characters! .The film shows that Cobain had a lot of demons (a life-long depression,very suicidal,was very terrified about all the fame,due to not being "prepeared" for it,a massive drug problem.)and the Love helped Cobain (wrongly)see the only way out was suicide. Final view on the film:

An interesting,but very flawed film about a major music icon.The shows there is no definitive film/book on Nirvana/Cobain.
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