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...these extraneous, clichéd elements quickly overpower the film??s central plot line, turning the players into caricatures and causing the film to unravel...
...characters of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and the rest of the Rolling Stones are peripheral in the film, appearing mainly in flashbacks to the band’s early days. They only appear once in the film??s present, when they arrive at Jones’ house to fire him for his unreliable and uncontrollable behavior...
Instead, the film??s minimal plot centers on the alternately tense and tender relationship between Jones and Thorogood. Thorogood is the central figure of the last phase of Jones’ life: his constant companion, a witness to the unraveling that led to his split with the band, and possibly his killer...
Then again, that may not sound so fictional. But the film??s fantasy world never draws the audience in because Chester never commits to the fantasy’s efficacy. Every public display of homosexual affection is accompanied by a barrage of beer bottles from a New Jersey hick or a self-conscious sermon about New York’s gay-bashing epidemic...
...peers. He says, “Films had the power to move us. We’d talk for hours about how it was put together, what it said about the world.”Moss also outlines his worry for the fate of documentary film??a personal and relatively solitary art—in a capitalist nation, noting that “capitalism’s genius is taking forms that are meant to be transgressive and commodifying them.” Whether when working to determine if narrative should be a part of a documentary film...