For this review I'm going to start from the end, because I think that the movie deserves that. The Doors is for me the best biography movie ever and Val Kilmer's performance as Jim Morrison is the best performance that I have seen for a real life person. And after I have said those two things I think that there is no need to say more. If you by chance are interested to see how the 60s felt like this is the perfect movie. There are memorable scenes in there that show with incredible detail and virtuosity the charm, craziness and rebelliousness that went on during the 60s. The Doors is a psychedelic movie that can be fully understood and appreciated if you accompany it with a fat joint. But even without the joint The Doors is an astonishingly effective film, a film that defies the rules of pollitically correct filmmaking and storytelling by picturing a breathtaking torrent of emotions, events, concerts, drugs, alchool, sex and fights that seem to lead to absolute nowhere.
A movie that will endure through time, an underrated film for sure and a moment in the filmography of the great Oliver Stone who showed that he can do miracles even in that genre if he wants. The Doors is from the movies that will dominate your dreams and your daily schedule, a movie that I watch every two to three years without a second thought and finally a film that exceeds the word "biography" and goes more close to the word "epiphany". If all the biography movies had the same directing charm and the same boldness as this movie we would be living in paradise an not on planet earth. The film received no Oscars and how could it receive is filled with "bad" and " unaccaptable" things, it was heavily critisized for its depiction of Morrison (Oliver Stone had citied that he wanted to make an impressionist view of Morrison) and it's mostly forgotten by time. It remains though one of the movies that are the reason why I love cinema so passionatelly. I love every minute of it.
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