KURT COBAIN: THE MONTAGE OF HECK

21 years has passed from the death of Kurt Cobain the frontman of the 90’s iconic band Nirvana. The new movie Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) takes a new deep look to the life of Cobain as a son, a brother, a friend, a band mate, a husband and a father and from a happy childhood to the point depression and heroin addiction that made him want to take his own life. The movie is humanized portrayal of Cobain and his life containing Cobain’s artwork, notes, and audio recordings. You can start to have a better understanding for the person not as media saw him, but how he saw himself.

Cobain had a happy childhood at Aberdeen, Washington. He was sensitive kid who loved to draw and create things. Cobain’s parent’s divorced when he was 7. He felt embarrassed and started to rebel against his parent. Cobain started pilfer and broke store windows. He was thrown from home to home and he didn’t feel like he belonged to anywhere. “Only thing he would have wanted was a real family, but he rebelled against the only thing that he wanted”, said Cobain’s sister Kim Cobain.

He was a lone, self-hating teenager who found a release from his angst in smoking pot and then he discovered punk music. He started to teach himself guitar and write music. Music was an outlet for his feelings that he couldn’t express otherwise. 

In the movie viewers are allowed to see into the Cobain’s personal notebooks. Fast flashing images of the journal pages with thoughts of who he is as a person, paintings and drawings. These notes really show the feelings and thoughts of Cobain. This is a closest you can ever get to Cobain. New never heard audio recordings tell a story of a young immature guy who became an icon.  

Cobain was labelled as a voice of the generation by media. He wanted his band to be successful but he didn’t want to be a voice of the generation. He felt pressure about the position he was but into. He felt that everything had got too big with the band and it was his reason and there was no coming back. Cobain spooked to his audience trough his music. He captured the feelings of what is like to be teenager going towards to adulthood.  

In the movie you can hear Cobain telling about his first times smoking pot at the age of 13. He tried to get rid of his feelings and demons with using drugs. He was a heavy drinker and after the band got more successful he started to use harder drugs. After getting married with Courtney Love and having their one and only child Frances they still continued their use of drugs. It’s really emotional to see Cobain playing with Frances and see that he really loved and cared about her. Still he had his demons and drugs. This usage turned into an addiction witch later turn into point of he taking his own life.

Cobain died at 5^th of April 1994. He was 27 years old and joined the club of celebrities who died at that age. Cobain will be 27 forever. People are really fascinated with a thought of death celebrities. He left behind his music and his art that will be there for long after his gone.