I went with my mom today to see Michael Jackson's This is it. I enjoyed it mostly because he is such a talented musician and artist. I also enjoyed it because there were a lot of songs I remember listening too while I was growing up.
It was sad in some ways to see his physical abilities lacking, obviously from being older but also because of his addiction to pain medication. He didn't move as smoothly or quite have the energy/crispnesss that he always had in his dancing. It was fun to see him joke with the rest of the cast and to see his creativity come to life externally.
I saw this, too, and enjoyed it a lot. I think I came away with a much deeper sense of his humanity, which was a good off-set to the media-born version of him we have come to know.
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