The King of Pop's mask finally cracks — but who's brave enough to look?
Michael Jackson is remembered as the King of Pop, and is a renowned incredibly talented singer and dancer. His style, music and dance moves are celebrated worldwide. He was a one of a kind performer and once in a lifetime entertainer, but few people really know the man he was behind the mask and and the man that the media portrayed him to be. From the age of 5 and up until his last days, the pressure that was put on him was enormous and it had serious repercussions on his physical and mental health. His success was overshadowed by child abuse allegations, and his addiction for prescription drugs and plastic surgery. The show reveals who was the real Michael Jackson, the deeply conflicted man, the man that never really grew up, the man in the mirror.
Production
Archival footage curation that feels both invasive and necessary.
Writing
Narrative refuses easy answers about Jackson's duality.
Director
Roxane Schlumberger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mark Lester, interviewed here, was godfather to Jackson's children and has publicly claimed he could be Paris Jackson's biological father — a detail the doc notably sidesteps.
Released during the pandemic's first wave when 'Tiger King' dominated, this quieter documentary about another chaotic American icon struggled to find its audience despite its timely themes of isolation and public spectacle.
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