I watched living with Michael Jackson when I was 18 and the only memory of the documentary I had was about Michael’s plastic surgery. I watched the documentary again recently and was angered beyond wits.
Few minutes into the movie you realize how callous and insensitive Martin Bashir’s comments are when Michael talks about Neverland and how he loves going on the rides alone. It broke my heart to watch Martin grill Michael about his personal life. I cringed every time Martin scoffed at Michael.
“don’t you prefer making love or goin to a concert” .. really .. lol!!, so the only pleasures in life, that seem normal, sadly, are carnal pleasures.
Michael seemed much like a child through out the movie and here was a man (bashir) expecting all men of 44 years to be macho and insensitive. By this time I was wondering if Martin had a traumatic childhood too, on the account of his emotional handicap. So what if a man loves being a child and loves water balloon fights and rides. To be a child by heart is not a crime, is it?
I was in tears when Martin fails to comprehend Michael’s love for children and his simple gesture of sharing a room with kids. Makes me wonder if there is any place at all in this world for love in its pure form..Watch how shocked Martin is to Michael’s idea of sharing a bed with children…. Why does sharing a bed with children have to be sexual? Are we so clouded that we fail to see that his love for kids is genuine and not sexual?
Life as we know it is extremely complicated … every situation needs to be analyzed and scrutinized and everything has to be filtered down into acts that are socially accepted.. hence acts of a man that are innocent in nature are turned into sexual acts.
We realize how important it is to be loved and to be cared for, only when we are denied of it. Why is it so hard to accept that a man who has been through so much as a child, wants to give the children of this world all the love he can.
This part of the movie was quiet disturbing… Michael probably should not have held his baby out of the window but i am sure he did not mean to kill the kid in front of the whole world. That issue was blown out proportion.Haven we heard of parents accidentally dislocating their child’s shoulder cause they tugged them the wrong way.Parents are not perfect human beings, they make mistakes and so did Michael.It was sickening to watch the media have a field trip over this one.In this part of the movie Michael is waving to his fans and you see how happy he is… Martin says “when I got up to his room I was worried, there was a manic quality about him that I’d never seen before”… He’s happy you fool… That’s how you feel when you are loved.
F*** the press! Michael you’re the best! People should learn to avoid the media hubbub and understand the issue on their own and form an opinion for themselves.
We love him for his music and his dance. He’s an inspiration and an idol for millions. His music speaks for him…
I hope he has found peace and happiness where ever he is… We Love You Michael!
