Talk:Last Days (film)

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This was a horrible movie. It showed nothing and felt a lot of confusion. The people who filmed the movie put their POV into it and did not explore the option of murder. TearAwayTheFunerealDress 16:20, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

This movie is fiction, so Van Sant didn't have the cover the 'murder angle' or any other facts of Cobain's death, because it's just a Cobain stand-in. If you felt it was a bad movie, fine, but you can't slam it for being biased or inaccurate because it wasn't supposed to be a biopic so it has no obligation to be objective or factual. I don't even think Blake kills himself at the ned of the film, as Cobain did, rather he dies presumably from a drug overdose (since there is no blood in the scene where they discover his body.)

That last fact is rather ironic, considering the apperance of a Tom Grant-esque character, who has since become a major proponent of the murder theory.

On the other hand... I'm not sure the film really indicates that it was a suicide or not. You simply go from Blake in the greenhouse, then cut to a later scene with the gardener finding him dead there. We don't see anyone slip into the greenhouse to manipulate anything, but we don't see Blake actually pull a trigger on himself, either. (We do see a naked ghost of Blake climbing a ladder to Heaven, for what it's worth.) Presuming that the character is undergoing a drug trip (one which seems to span multiple days), the cause of death isn't even illustrated -- the character could just have O.D.'ed or choked on his own vomit, for all we know.

Richard Lee, in his review of the film, points out a scene where "Blackie" (generally considered the Love analogue) calls the house in a frantic rage, and the person answering it (not Blake) says "You've got to calm down. Everything is under control here." As Lee points out, this is ambiguous, and could mean "Leave him alone, he needs time to settle down," or it could mean "Just sit tight, things are going as planned." - Keith D. Tyler ¶ 20:40, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

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