by chris » Sun Oct 09, 2011 7:29 pm
just caught the entire doc. whew...it was emotional. i didn't think it would be. because...i sort of knew the ending. but it was.
scorsese didn't sugar coat the man. just showed, through interviews, who he was. he wasn't tortured like john. he lived life the way he thought it should be lived. and he lived it on his terms. we should all be so lucky. he surrounded himself with people he loved. and he did the things he loved doing. and his friends loved him so. some, ray cooper (the famed percussionist) still can barely talk about it.
look, we've all seen every picture, heard every story, and heard every song. but we haven't. we only think we did. there is lots of stuff here i've never seen. if you want to know george just a little bit more than you do now, see this. it doesn't try to make him seem like a superhero. you'll just see george. and i don't think he would have had it any other way.
I want to tell her that I love her a lot, but I got to get a belly full of wine.