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Last Days presents [Blake]'s bleak parting in disconnected patches, jumping around randomly within its constricted time and place of what seems to be less than 24 hours in Blake's life. It begins with a walkabout in the woods and ends with his suicide, which [GUS VAN SANT] spares us from witnessing. It's as if we're seeing the story through the eyes of a spirit Blake, looking down at his terrestrial life, like Eliot's Prufrock, after having ascended his stairway to heaven. This is a wonderful conceit, except that Van Sant's incoherent movie is even more self-indulgent than his shot-for-shot remake of Psycho.
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Last Days; Nevermind
IN GUS VAN SANT'S Last Days, the young, gifted, unstable musician Blake (Michael Pitt) is an afterimage of Kurt Cobain. By fictionalizing his...
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