"The Two Killings of Sam Cooke" is a fascinating documentary, whether you are familiar with the music of Sam Cooke or not. While I have loved his music for decades and had some passing knowlege of how he died, the film did a great job of bringing it all to light and putting it in context. After all, it was incredibly weird that a young and incredibly successful pop singer would be on top of the world one day and then killed the next and it being ruled a justifiable homicide!
The story doesn't just recount his death but puts it in context. I didn't know that he was involved with the civil rights movement and that he was friends with the likes of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X. Overall, a very well told biography...especially because so many who knew and loved him are still alive and participated in this project. Well worth seeing as well as quite sad.
The story doesn't just recount his death but puts it in context. I didn't know that he was involved with the civil rights movement and that he was friends with the likes of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X. Overall, a very well told biography...especially because so many who knew and loved him are still alive and participated in this project. Well worth seeing as well as quite sad.