Genre:
Documentary
Directed
by: Tom DiCillo
Starring:
Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, John Densmore, Johnny Depp
Running
time: 86 minutes
Through the use of loads and loads of
archived footage, When You’re Strange tells the story of the rock band The
Doors and of its enigmatic lead singer, Jim Morrison. The film, which is
narrated by actor Johnny Depp, also uses footage from HWY: An American
Pastoral, a film made by Morrison.
This documentary was meant to serve as an
answer to the 1991 movie made by Oliver Stone about Morrison and The Doors. In
that sense, it offers a much more accurate portrayal of their story. Unlike
most documentaries, there are no interviews with the people still alive today;
it is just the archived footage, narrated by Depp. The advantage of this way of
doing things is that the focus remains on the facts and not on the revisionist
history that often comes from rock n’ roll interviews.
All things considered, this is an excellent
documentary that is well worth seeing.
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