Soaked in Bleach is an intriguing, if slightly meandering docudrama on the death of Kurt Cobain that is still to this day shrouded in mystery. For a direct to dvd documentary i remember hearing nothing about back in the day, especially one about a subject as TMZ as this, i was surprised at how good the film looked, how well interviews were together and how close to the facts it was.
Though Soaked in Bleach comes in with a predisposition on what happened back in 1994, it puts it's case across rather well. The most insightful and interesting part of the whole documentary for me was how inept the investigation was by the Seattle police department into Cobain's death. They readily believed it to be a suicide based on tabloid news coverage alone, minus one forged missing persons form by Courtney Love, and if Soaked in Bleach is to be believed, conducted literally no investigation into the death and wrote it off as a suicide the same day they found the body.
This fascinating insight and several more are what you will find in soaked in bleach, a remarkably decent examination of it's subject and one that's well worth a watch for Nirvana fans and true crime fans alike.
Though Soaked in Bleach comes in with a predisposition on what happened back in 1994, it puts it's case across rather well. The most insightful and interesting part of the whole documentary for me was how inept the investigation was by the Seattle police department into Cobain's death. They readily believed it to be a suicide based on tabloid news coverage alone, minus one forged missing persons form by Courtney Love, and if Soaked in Bleach is to be believed, conducted literally no investigation into the death and wrote it off as a suicide the same day they found the body.
This fascinating insight and several more are what you will find in soaked in bleach, a remarkably decent examination of it's subject and one that's well worth a watch for Nirvana fans and true crime fans alike.