It’s invaluable to have his family on-screen, even though Cobain’s own recollections of his difficult home upbringing make it hard to know how much stock to put into what his family has to say, especially given the 20 years of hindsight since his death. Morgen was also able to assemble Kurt’s family, including both of his parents and his sister, all of whom have rarely spoken on camera about Kurt. Morgen was granted extraordinary access for the film, including the keys a storage locker that even Love claimed to not know the entire contents of. Named after a sound collage tape that Cobain made back in 1988, Morgen’s film similarly utilizes an array of styles to get inside Cobain’s brain, including early childhood family videos, animation sequences based on Cobain’s art, extracts from his journals, rare audio interviews, as well as Cobain and Courtney Love’s own home videos. That might seem counter-intuitive, but Morgen’s film is singularly interested in Cobain as a person, and not necessarily interested in his legacy as a “spokesperson of a generation.” Director Brett Morgen’s Montage of Heck is a documentary about the life of Kurt Cobain, and not about Nirvana.
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