Product: Last Days (2 Disc Special Edition)
Rating: 3.0
Life (and Death) are boring and beautiful
I both hate and love this film. It fairly closely follows the last days of Cobain as depicted in Charles R. Cross's excellent bio, Heavier Than Heaven. There are moment's of brilliance, like hearing the last music Blake/Kurt creates after he's decided to kill kimself. Kurt's friend Kim Gordon asking Blake if he's told his daughter that he's become a rock cliche. Junkie-hangers-ons listening to Velvet Underground. Mormons!The lack of a score brings up the loneliness of the last days and even the garden house (which looks just like the space above the garage where Kurt shot himself) highlight the isolation. It's an incredible homage to a drawn-out suicide that 12 years later just seems like a momentary plunge into paralyzing depression. Just think about all the great music we've missed from Kurt and Kurt's missed from the world.Not a film to rock out to - but if you understood Van Zant's Elephant and understood Kurt's pain, you will get a lot from this walk in the woods.