The movie begins with a car crash, a Morrison look-alike gets out of the wreck and begins hitchhiking along the road. A car stops to pick him up and cuts to the next scene where he's now driving the car, alone, through the desert, and listening to a radio broadcast announcer stating that Morrison died that day in Paris. Are they implying the death was faked? A hoax?
Next we see performance scenes from the band's history, interspersed with album covers, playing as if being rewound from last to first. Stop. Again, our look-alike, reviewing a map of California. We get some brief historical context, and then a famous scene of the band introducing themselves coming off a plane.
What follows is the standard history of how the band came together, narrated over real footage of the band, some performance, some casual. While the other members of the band are discussed, the focus is still predominately on Morrison.
All in all I think the documentary is a good film, and it's much more real and honest compared to the movie Olive Stone did a few years ago, but it feels a bit redundant from a fan's perspective. They offer some footage that isn't as commonly circulated, and that is very nice to see, but it still feels like just another movie about Jim Morrison.
The film closes with a mention that his father finally acknowledged Morrison...10 years after his death....
Related links:
http://www.thedoors.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors
Funny, this just came up on my Facebook page this morning: Fact of the Day: The Doors scored their first #1 with Light My Fire on this day (July 29) in 1967.
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