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Williams said this around 2016, well into a discography that had already endured several waves of mega-superstardom.
The film hits all the expected pit-stops of addiction and alcoholism and heartbreak and egomania along the way.
But it does so with a blazing, restless inventiveness that goes beyond mere sensationalism into something downright pathological.
The movie marinates in his trickster theater-kid spirit.
The performers strut and bounce and pirouette and leap into and out of costumes.
Streetlights turn into the raging red fires of hell.
The fields of Knebworth transform into medieval slaughter-fest, covered in blood and smoke.
The movie isnt just crazy itscrazy.
Trying to describe it, one sounds like a lunatic.
The unpredictable, improvisatory vigor of these musical numbers is an artful illusion.
A few skips into a spinning embrace become one lover running after another inside a dark memory.
And yet, here they are, still in the midst of their intoxicating first encounter.
Could the collision be intentional?
Weirdly, the familiarity of the biographical beats ease us into the formal daring.
If its structure and script were as unhinged as its style, the film might have been unwatchable.
He then reassured us that everywhere else, Im kind of a big deal.
He really is; the guy has broken multiple industry records in the U.K. (Liam would eventually marry Nicole Appleton.)
I knew he was huge, but the few songs I heard, I quickly forgot.
This made him, as he himself would admit, quite annoying.
(A narcissistic, punchable, shit-eating twat is how he introduces himself in the film.
Its also how he signs off at the end.)
But watchingBetter Man, I found myself thinking back on why Williamss antics made so many of us uncomfortable.
Through the sheer audacity of its filmmaking, this movie articulates it better than we ever could.
