{"id":492643,"date":"2022-09-12T18:31:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T15:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-thrilling-portrait-of-david-bowie\/"},"modified":"2022-09-12T18:31:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T15:31:48","slug":"a-thrilling-portrait-of-david-bowie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-thrilling-portrait-of-david-bowie\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Thrilling Portrait of David Bowie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af458d2e39f7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af458d2e39f7\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-thrilling-portrait-of-david-bowie\/#%E2%80%9CA_Thrilling_Portrait_of_David_Bowie%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Thrilling Portrait of David Bowie&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Thrilling_Portrait_of_David_Bowie%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Thrilling Portrait of David Bowie&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;Your eyes and ears will be grateful you saw this immersive documentary. &lt;\/span&gt;\n&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;div id=\"\"&gt;\n\n\n\n                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/moonage-daydream-1.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Moonage Daydream\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/moonage-daydream-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/moonage-daydream-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                                    &lt;p&gt;\n                    &lt;span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\"&gt;Neon&lt;\/span&gt;\n\n                        &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Will DiGravio\u00a0\u00b7 Published on September 12th, 2022 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    The best things about &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Moonage Daydream,\u00a0&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;\/strong&gt;the new documentary about &lt;strong&gt;David Bowie&lt;\/strong&gt;, are what it is not. It is not an endless stream of interviews with famous people who knew him. It does not, like so many contemporary documentaries that take a single person as its subject, weigh itself down with biographical information one could learn from skimming a Wikipedia page. Nor does it make the classic mistake of telling rather than showing the life and work of its protagonist. And David Bowie certainly had a lot to show us during his sixty-nine years on this planet.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Viewers will recognize the typical markers of a biographical documentary like this. The film shows the development of Bowie as a person, both the public persona and the private individual. It charts the various phases of his artistic career. And it reveals the political, sexual, and spiritual journeys that Bowie underwent during each of those periods. But writer-director-producer <strong>Brett Morgen\u00a0<\/strong>brings all that information to the surface only once in a while, often with an interview clip or two of Bowie himself. It would not be a documentary about a 20th-century icon without a Dick Cavett clip, right? Such moments, though, are merely brief reprieves from the bulk of the film, which masterfully centers Bowie\u2019s music and iconography, creating an immersive experience that simultaneously envelopes both eye and ear.<\/p>\n<p><em>Moonage Daydream<\/em> features a range of footage, including sequences from Bowie\u2019s own work as a filmmaker. Bowie devotees will be thrilled by Morgen\u2019s treatment of such footage, some of which has never been released before. And then there are shots from live concerts, where Bowie, at various ages, dominates the camera with such drama and energy, it is easy to forget that the primary audience on his mind must have been the thousands of people before him. The footage feels so deliberate; it is almost as if he knew it would someday be used for this purpose. At 140-minutes in length, the film is exceedingly ambitious, and while some parts do drag a little, it all works. Some may even find themselves wishing for more.<\/p>\n<p>Bowie\u2019s music, naturally, features as the primary pulse of <em>Moonage Daydream<\/em>. Viewers should see the film, which is playing in IMAX, on as big a screen with as loud of speakers as possible. Morgen has a preternatural sense for pairing images and sound. When the music plays, he dips in and out of live performances, knowing when to showcase a certain gesture or expression that <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears on Bowie\u2019s face. The filmmaking draws attention to itself in a way that does not distract from its subject. In fact, it is the highly-stylized treatment of Bowie\u2019s life and work that makes it such a compelling and irresistible portrait.<\/p>\n<p><em>Moonage Daydream\u00a0<\/em>certainly at times feels like an homage, but never like hagiography. The contradictions of Bowie\u2019s life and work are acknowledged with care. What makes the film such a refreshing work to watch is the ways in which it seems to demand something from the viewer. No narrator tells us what to think and feel about the subject. One sits in the theater, in their own head, and wonders, who was this man, and what do I think of him?<\/p>\n<p>Like its subject, <em>Moonage Daydream\u00a0<\/em>seems to exist outside of time and space.\u00a0 There are times when the film plays as if it were in a gallery setting. Images appear one after the other. Sometimes, an image or two may repeat. The filmmaking itself comes to draw attention to these repetitions, the recurring motifs, and the thematic preoccupations of Bowie\u2019s own life. <em>Moonage Daydream <\/em>depicts Bowie\u2019s life as one grounded in experience. In one moment, he talks about the music of Fats Domino and how he never quite understood the lyrics of his music. Instead, he would let it just wash over him. The film seems to mimic this process, passing it on to the viewer. It is not that we relive Bowie\u2019s life, but attempt to live as if we were him. To experience art and the world as he experienced it, as best as one can.<\/p>\n<p>Morgen makes the interesting choice to sprinkle clips of famous films throughout, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> from Hollywood and beyond. Their inclusion heightens the film\u2019s emphasis on visuality. Much of <em>Moonage Daydream\u00a0<\/em>concerns the development of Bowie\u2019s look. How others perceived him. How he perceived himself. And, of course, how he made use of the moving image to reflect his own vision of the world. By marrying Bowie\u2019s iconic music with such meta contemplations on the nature of the visual, the film offers a deliberate view of Bowie that in no way attempts to be a definitive one. This emphasis on visual subjectivity makes\u00a0<em>Moonage Daydream\u00a0<\/em>a thrill to watch. In feeling Morgen\u2019s directorial presence, one is reminded that no objective take on a subject can or should exist.\u00a0There are endless ways to see and experience the life and work of David Bowie.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>Moonage Daydream debuts in theaters on September 16, 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: Documentary\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/will.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Will DiGravio is a Brooklyn-based critic, researcher, and video essayist, who has been a contributor at Film School Rejects since 2018. Follow and\/or unfollow him on Twitter <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/willdigravio\">@willdigravio<\/a>.        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<pre><code>    &lt;!-- START RECOMMENDED READING 1 --&gt;\n                                &lt;section class=\"recommended py-5\"&gt;\n            &lt;h3&gt;Recommended Reading&lt;\/h3&gt;\n\n\n        &lt;\/section&gt;\n            &lt;!-- END RECOMMENDED READING --&gt;\n\n\n\n\n&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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