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(Credited cast) | Steven Patrick Morrissey | ... | Himself |
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If you like old-style, traditional documentaries -- i.e. armies of talking heads, yakking endlessly to the camera -- this is your kind of film.
The Irish-English singer Morrissey is the subject here. He's an interesting character, but he doesn't appear in the film. The camera follows a mob of people (almost all Los Angeles Chicanos, for some reason), who offer us hero worship of a particular kind. They analyze the guy down to microscopic levels: his sexual proclivities (or lack thereof; is he really Asexual?), his hair, his grooming, his politics, the meaning of his lyrics, what it means when a nude man appears on one of his album covers.
And on it goes. Some of the conversations are interesting (he's gay, he's not, he's not even sexual, etc.), but you must stay with these people to really appreciate what they are saying. And that's the problem -- the director offers us no diversions, not even routine cutaways. It's just not-stop talking by fans in the throes of idolatry.
It certainly helps if you're a fan of Morrissey (and the Smiths singing group). If you aren't, there's a good chance you'll find all of this stuff pretty boring. A documentary spanning more than 60 minutes, offering a parade of relentless talking heads, with nothing to balance it, is not exactly riveting.