Reading the reviews here one is surprised at so many people not liking the documentary and even more so not liking the musician the person even i wonder why they even watched that?
- Personally I am a huge fan of the music of this man it is beautiful most of the time and very deep in a sort of spiritual religious sometimes Christian way.
When you hear about his first 5 to 10 years especially the demise of his father and the way it happened you can see and feel that this level of trauma can either destroy a person for their entire life or make it that they dig deeper and turn this unbelievable level of pain into some artistic creation which not only helps the creator but also helps people who come into contact with those creations.
- There are now countless number of recordings of Moby and quite frankly I do not see the quality ever waning in any of them. The one that was slated the most was called animal rights and with hindsight it now sounds ace too
anyway enough about the music to the documentary then
The way he has put this together is very much a sort of punk do-it-yourself kind of method of putting footage arranging it in a way that amuses the viewers
He jumps around quite a lot between different periods but in the end is quite chronological. It is a creative piece of work in itself. I came to this documentary on the back of reading the first book he wrote called Porcelain about the years up to 1999 I think. I shall read the second book as well but what is in this documentary is exactly exactly what is in the first book but of course with the added possibility of graphics and photos so in many ways it is more interesting but the book is really really good too highly highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it
As Music documentaries go and there are so many bad ones around this one is really very good I shall give it probably a nine it is not perfect but it is close to perfect. Every fan should and will probably have seen this let me just say thank you to Moby for all this incredible music which lifts the spirit time and time again. And has the guy got ego issues? Is he a little bit self-centred? Come on folks he's a musician :-)
