{"id":22566,"date":"2012-04-20T01:57:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T01:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22566"},"modified":"2012-04-20T01:58:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T01:58:48","slug":"film-review-marley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22566","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: Marley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmjournal.com\/filmjournal\/content_display\/reviews\/specialty-releases\/e3i2913ee59b68b1545a0c9d3afac6b8fb5\" target=\"_blank\">Film Review: Marley<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmjournal.com\/filmjournal\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Film Journal International<br \/>\n<\/a>2012-04-18<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marsha McCreadie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Marley<\/em>, the documentary by Oscar-winning <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kevin_Macdonald_(director)\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Macdonald<\/a> about the legendary musician and national and international symbol for individual rights, should sparkle and sing\u2014OK, there\u2019s some of that\u2014but it just sort of hums along. Maybe you can\u2019t catch this particular lightning in a bottle, but there might be another way than this respectful, straightforward, admiring approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0If anyone could display the spectacular yet contradictory parts of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Marley\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Marley<\/a>\u2014a multi-talented half-black\/half-white womanizer who loved spiritually and pan-nationally; a mesmerizing performer who was a quiet guy; a pride-instiller for his dirt-poor country and religious proselytizer who lived by his own rules\u2014it should be Macdonald. The Oscar-winning British director made the tyrant <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idi_Amin\" target=\"_blank\">Idi Amin<\/a> likeable and the charming James McAvoy despicable in<em> The Last King of Scotland<\/em>; he set our hearts to pounding with the jarring edit of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Munich_massacre\" target=\"_blank\">massacred Israeli Olympians<\/a> in <em>One Day in September<\/em>. <em>Marley<\/em> is thorough, revelatory and completely fair-minded. It\u2019s just not very exciting. Wrong for Bob Marley&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The Marley family-approved doc includes rare, candid interviews with his children (well, two of the eleven), and three\u2014wait, four\u2014of his seven women. <em>Marley<\/em> comes across as introspective, also extremely competitive (one too many shots of him at soccer), emphasizing the psychoanalytic angle that he was so driven because he never really knew his white father, married to his mother Cedella but mainly absent until he died when Bob was 10. We see a photo of Norval Marley, learn what little there is to know about this British Marine captain, and find that Bob always saw himself as an outsider: never part of the white community nor of the black, as he was considered a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=440\" target=\"_blank\">half-caste<\/a>, not black enough. In the black Jamaican community, it was rumored his white half caused his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melanoma\" target=\"_blank\">melanoma<\/a>, from which he died at 36&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmjournal.com\/filmjournal\/content_display\/reviews\/specialty-releases\/e3i2913ee59b68b1545a0c9d3afac6b8fb5\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film Review: Marley Film Journal International 2012-04-18 Marsha McCreadie Marley, the documentary by Oscar-winning Kevin Macdonald about the legendary musician and national and international symbol for individual rights, should sparkle and sing\u2014OK, there\u2019s some of that\u2014but it just sort of hums along. Maybe you can\u2019t catch this particular lightning in a bottle, but there might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1245,5,21,8,6],"tags":[573,10470,80,9696,10471,1392],"class_list":["post-22566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-biography","category-book-reviews","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-new-media","tag-bob-marley","tag-film-journal-international","tag-jamaica","tag-kevin-macdonald","tag-marsha-mccreadie","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}