This documentary on the legendary rock group sure lit the Movie Slut's fire. It's been nearly two decades since Oliver Stone did his take on Jim Morrison and The Doors and she forgot how insanely sexy and talented he was. Morrison. Not Stone.
Writer/Director Tom DiCillo wove his crazy musical quilt without the help of talking heads (Usually, windbags anyway), or a preconceived agenda, a la Stone's. He worked with footage of the guys, some never seen before, and a narration by Johnny Depp. In this way, viewers draw their own conclusions about the boozing, drugging poet/musician.
The Movie Slut now considers Door's music a soundtrack for their times. Morrison died in 1971. His music played as a backdrop to the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, the Civil Rights Movement, the Kent State Massacre. He was a musician for those tumultuous times. And still sounds pretty amazing.
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