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slide after banging (a bit of sexual
slang that has never fit better) Ns hot,
middle school teacher (Eva Amurri
Martino) and getting her pregnant. Now
all grown up and fiat broke, Denny
aggressively dismantle the man's mystique,
but he doesn't serve up a hagiography either.
We learn about young Marley's life growing up
in the Jamaican countryside. Marley's father,
a rich white Jamaican of English stock, was
never in his life. At the age of 12, Marley
moved to Kingston with his mother and they
lived in the Trenchtown slum, where gang
sters, musicians and the country's soccer play
ers came from. Marley never forgot his roots,
and even when he moved to hisjx>sh Hope
Road residence he was always in contact with
Trenchtown.
The movie's most gripping moments, how
ever, focus on Marley's role as a social voice
MARLEY (PG-13) Calling Bob Marley simply a
reggae musician is like calling The Beatles a
boy band. When he died of cancer in 1981 at
the age of 36, Marley was immensely popular
around the world. His albums with his band
The Waiters, tike Catch a Fire, Bumin' and
Exodus, were huge successes, and he helped
popularize the Rastafari movement through his
songs and image. He was from the Third World,
and his musk addressed the struggles of the
poor and disenfranchised. It's probably safe to
say that Mitt Romney isn't down with Bob.
Directed by filmmaker Kevin Macdonald
(The Last King of Scotland, State of Play),
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the legend, and for a project with the bless
ing of Marley's family (his son Ziggy served
as a producer), it's surprisingly honest in its
appraisal of the man. Fans have a tendency to
romanticize their idols because their work is
special to them. Family members distort the
truth out of a sense of loyalty or because they
understandably don't want family secrets aired
in public. Marley is charismatic and brilliantly
talented. But he also comes off as hypocriti
cal and hard as a fist, which simultaneously
makes him more appealing and human.
Macdonald, who had extensive access
to family, friends and associates, doesn't
and how the country's political factions tried
to exploit his influence for their gain. Jamaica
in the 1970s was violent, and Marley was not
immune from it In 1976, unknown assailants
shot him, his wife and his manager at Hope
Road two days before a free concert. More
violence followed him during his first trip to
Africa, and the footage of a show in Zimbabwe
is stunning and moving.
It would've been nice to have songs played
in their entirety, but there are enough great
clips to satisfy. ^
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