This is a very interesting "documentary", if you could call it that. Really, it is just candid behind-the-scenes vlog footage of late rapper Juice Wrld in the months leading up to his tragic death in December 2019.
The film is barely a project. It has some interjection here and there from people close to him in the present day, and these interviews don't really sugar coat his situation, which I found to be very helpful in understanding the late rapper's life.
However, even though there isn't much to this, I enjoyed seeing the "day in the life" footage. It made me realize how these people's lives truly are on the other side of the screen. Hundreds of millions of streams, and likes, and followers, "luxury" living, but still the person in the spotlight is the exact same person they were before all of that - a troubled young man with a dangerous drug addiction, and a huge passion for music. Despite everything externally changing, nothing was really changed on the inside.
In this light, this "documentary" serves as a grave warning against the temptations of materialism and fast living. "We should buy a private jet," Juice abruptly says in the middle of a recording session, clearly stoned out of his mind and barely conscious. "Really?", someone next to him asks. "Yeah".
I also appreciated that this film didn't skip over clips of Juice abusing drugs. Knowing his eventual fate, it's very painful and nasty to watch him down 5 pills at a time, or try and fail to snort lines of percocet while already nodding off from opiates, but this was the man's life. If we're seeing the behind the scenes, we need the full, authentic story, and that's basically what we got.
Does this film make him look like a worse person? Probably, but I appreciate the authenticity, and this is probably the reason the long-teased XXXTENTACION documentary will never see the light of day. The truth hurts. R. I. P. Jarad Higgins.
The film is barely a project. It has some interjection here and there from people close to him in the present day, and these interviews don't really sugar coat his situation, which I found to be very helpful in understanding the late rapper's life.
However, even though there isn't much to this, I enjoyed seeing the "day in the life" footage. It made me realize how these people's lives truly are on the other side of the screen. Hundreds of millions of streams, and likes, and followers, "luxury" living, but still the person in the spotlight is the exact same person they were before all of that - a troubled young man with a dangerous drug addiction, and a huge passion for music. Despite everything externally changing, nothing was really changed on the inside.
In this light, this "documentary" serves as a grave warning against the temptations of materialism and fast living. "We should buy a private jet," Juice abruptly says in the middle of a recording session, clearly stoned out of his mind and barely conscious. "Really?", someone next to him asks. "Yeah".
I also appreciated that this film didn't skip over clips of Juice abusing drugs. Knowing his eventual fate, it's very painful and nasty to watch him down 5 pills at a time, or try and fail to snort lines of percocet while already nodding off from opiates, but this was the man's life. If we're seeing the behind the scenes, we need the full, authentic story, and that's basically what we got.
Does this film make him look like a worse person? Probably, but I appreciate the authenticity, and this is probably the reason the long-teased XXXTENTACION documentary will never see the light of day. The truth hurts. R. I. P. Jarad Higgins.