MoonageDaydream, the new DavidBowieReal documentary from brettmorgen, is a sensational tribute to an artist who defied boundaries, matching the Starman’s iconic energy. Our review:
What’s your first memory of David Bowie? Is it of Ziggy Stardust, the mullet-haired, leotard wearing alien rockstar from far beyond the stars? Or is it of Jareth, the menacing-but-mostly-harmless Goblin King from Jim Henson’s Labyrinth? Maybe it’s simply of a man with bright orange hair and a Union Jack coat, or a long-haired older man singing his heart out in a sweatshirt on VH1.
To hear Bowie “narrate” the film himself is comforting, like listening to your rock-and-roll grandfather tell you stories about the good old days. Moonage concusses you with the loud stereo of its title song before soothing you with old audio of the singer discussing his process, examining how malleable his approach to writing really was.
To cover every aspect of Bowie’s career, including every album or project he produced in those thirty-ish years, Moonage Daydream would have to have been a twelve hour spectacle, and that would probably still leave out some bits here and there. But what is included is a distilled essence of Bowie — not his career, but the man himself — that flips flops around, crossing between years and proving that linear anything never really applied to the existence the Starman made for himself.
To Morgan’s credit, his chosen material, picked from thousands of hours of footage, is that which usually gets buried under piles of blue-and-red lightning bolts, but is just as representative of Bowie’s existence as a musical chameleon. Audiences are treated to pieces of the Glass Spider tour from 1987 and bombastic cuts of performances from the Earthling era, right alongside footage of interviews and pieces of the handful of films he appeared in over the years.
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