A Song of a Film

That’s precisely ‘This is It’. It’s mainly just songs: ‘Human Nature,’ ‘Earth Song’ and ‘Billie Jean,’ to name a few. You’ve got it, ‘This is It’ revolves around Michael Jackson’s awesome, fascinating preparation for his 50-concert world tour. A dream that didn’t come true.

‘This is It’ is just video-snippets of MJ and his band. The film begins with writing about the videos on the screen. Then, all the members of the band, from Australia and goodness knows where, say stuff like, ‘You inspired me, Michael’ and ‘I can remember my mom and me listening to you. It was MJ, MJ, MJ!’

There’s very little dialogue and mostly songs, so many times, I found myself wishing the songs would get over. And when there was dialogue, it was so sweet, so nice. It’s unbelieveable how MJ is so polite and soft and when he sings or dances… wow! He dances like a boy, his body’s like a rake, he’s very tall and he bends and stretches like rubber!

Some things in the movie were overplayed. The video accompanying MJ’s song, ‘Thriller’ was too long and so was the Humphry Bogart clip. Some of Michael’s steps were not graceful; one example is him shaking his hand (so fast, it was blurred) as though shedding a very sticky substance.

Overall, I quite liked ‘This is It,’ though I wouldn’t say, ‘Come on, guys, buy every ticket you can!’ One scene I found funny was when the director, staff, band and MJ were in a circle. When Jackson finished his soft speech, a mad camera lady whizzed around, filming everyone in the vicinity. The result was a blurry, uneven video.I tried to suppress my giggles. I mean, it mayn’t sound funny here, but you’ve got to see ‘This is It’ for that. So, why don’t you? ***