It's a MOVIE, see?

Rating: 10/10 (9 November 1998)

I read the previous comment (Bowie Should Sue), and I just had to say:
It's a movie. They are often fictional.
And a great movie, too. If you try to map the characters onto their real life inspirations, you'll only confuse yourself. A lot of the events in the movie really happened, but not to the same figures. None of that matters. Take it for what it is: an elegy on a brief flash of freedom. It touches on the importance of decadence and the inevitable pain it causes. It gives some historical significance to a frivolous movement. It combines two of the great loves of my life (Citizen Kane and Brian Eno) and doesn't f**k it up. It makes me wanna strut.