Michael Jackson: This Is It
This weekend I went to Nashville to hang with my friend Jeff. Our primary purpose was to see the Titans game (they won). Saturday night before the game we went to see the Michael Jackson Movie This Is It. (Who better to see on Halloween than Michael Jackson?)
I'll admit that I like Michael Jackson. Not the freaky plastic surgery victim who hangs his children over the balcony railing. The Michael Jackson who is an artist and the King of Pop.
I really enjoyed the movie. It showed via documentary style the 4 months of rehearsal leading up to the concerts he had planned in London. It showed the eccentric MJ who was a perfectionist when it came to musical arrangement and choreography. It also showed how everyone around him catered to his every whim. Everyone treated him as a super-celebrity and I think he liked it. He was definitely an odd sort of man. It was amazing to see a 50 yr old man dance like him. I suppose this contributed to the medication he was on.
It is sad that he is gone. I had to wonder watching the movie, if this was Michael turning the page. Attempting to re-enter pop culture, in his own weird way.
