3. Montage Of Heck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw5nZeptzEU Kurt Cobain's story is one that has been both analyzed in every which direction and mythologized to a dangerous extent. While "Montage of Heck" incorporates both approaches, it does so in a manner that places the viewer in the lonely and alienated world of its subject. Through archival footage, interviews, and animation filmmaker Brett Morgen paints a bleak portrait of one of rock's most idolized outcasts. The film tries its hardest to become Cobain himself, detailing his entire life from growing up in Aberdeen, Washington to his suicide at the age of 27 and digging deep inside the artist in the process. Conflicting reports of his outlook on success wrap around a depiction that rarely leaves its place of hanging over his shoulder. Dissection feels too on the nose as a description for the documentary, and yet its messy examination is due in part to the life it analyzes. Kurt Cobain appeared to be a musician whose story had been entirely understood by those aware of his music, but "Montage of Heck" proves that our knowledge of the man was surface level at best.