Review of Biggie & Tupac (2002) by Garry J — 24 Jul 2007
It takes a little getting used to the barebones style of Broomfield's docos. He just walks around with a boom mic interviewing people and you'd be forgiven for thinking that the soundman was replacing the host at the last minute.
But the advantage of his method is a sense of truth and spontaneity from on-the-ground interviews and a noticeable lack of a stage. I guess his would be the closes thing to cinema verite these days. Now about this film, it really raises some very interesting questions about the whole Biggie and Tupac incident.
What's really interesting about it is that one gets the sense that all you really needed to do for the inside story was to walk up to people and ask them to tell it to you, which is precisely what Broomfield does and which I think a lot of doco filmmakers overlook in a quest for sensationalism and narrative authority.
If I was a hippie I'd call his method an 'organic process', free of artificiality and decorative trimming.
This review of Biggie & Tupac (2002) was written by Garry J on 24 Jul 2007.
Biggie & Tupac has generally received positive reviews.
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