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Although generally I find Louis Theroux' documentaries entertaining, refreshing, open-hearted and revealing, I wouldn't call him a journalist. Well, at least not for this film.
Like his master Michael Moore, who learned him the trade in the epic series TV Nation, Theroux is biased and partial. And he has a very mean but subtle way to weave that bias into his documentaries.
In this film Theroux is unmasked by Uri Geller (one of the gatekeepers to Michael Jackson) in a scene where he presents a picture of MJ and suggestively comments that 'this picture was officially endorsed' and 'seriously, I'm not pulling your leg here'. At that point Geller responds and starts revealing the true intentions of Theroux.
From then on its a downward spiral. He arranges an interview with father Joe Jackson through a Vegas agent called Majestik Macnificent, pays up a total of US$ 5.500 for which he gets a few hours of Jackson promoting his new talent acts and only five minutes of interview on the curb, five minutes where Theroux totally locks up.
At the end of the film, Theroux has another opportunity to speak with MJ's dad, but he manages to spoil that opportunity as well. Big time.
I think in this film Theroux' biggest mistake is that he shows no interest whatsoever in the people that he does get to interview (be it Uri Geller, Majestik Magnificent or Joe Jackson) and tries much, much to hard to get an interview with Michael. He's just too eager, too hung up, too personally involved.
Which will undoubtedly have made it much harder to swallow that ITV's Martin Bashir got the MJ-scoop of the century.
Like his master Michael Moore, who learned him the trade in the epic series TV Nation, Theroux is biased and partial. And he has a very mean but subtle way to weave that bias into his documentaries.
In this film Theroux is unmasked by Uri Geller (one of the gatekeepers to Michael Jackson) in a scene where he presents a picture of MJ and suggestively comments that 'this picture was officially endorsed' and 'seriously, I'm not pulling your leg here'. At that point Geller responds and starts revealing the true intentions of Theroux.
From then on its a downward spiral. He arranges an interview with father Joe Jackson through a Vegas agent called Majestik Macnificent, pays up a total of US$ 5.500 for which he gets a few hours of Jackson promoting his new talent acts and only five minutes of interview on the curb, five minutes where Theroux totally locks up.
At the end of the film, Theroux has another opportunity to speak with MJ's dad, but he manages to spoil that opportunity as well. Big time.
I think in this film Theroux' biggest mistake is that he shows no interest whatsoever in the people that he does get to interview (be it Uri Geller, Majestik Magnificent or Joe Jackson) and tries much, much to hard to get an interview with Michael. He's just too eager, too hung up, too personally involved.
Which will undoubtedly have made it much harder to swallow that ITV's Martin Bashir got the MJ-scoop of the century.