Celebrity Spike Lee

Spike Lee’s video for Michael Jackson’s ‘This Is It’ is mini retrospective of singer’s life

Will this ever be it?

Yet another “final” send off to Michael Jackson has just been released — the video for the singer’s graceful, posthumous single, “This Is It,” directed by filmmaker Spike Lee.

As you’d expect, it’s a loving scrapbook of Jackson’s life, starting with slow-mo close-ups of his childhood home, before ballooning through his massive, worldwide fame.

Curiously, no sustained shots of his brothers appear, though there’s a lingering one of Jackson with his mother, Katherine.

Lee devoted roughly half the 4-plus minute clip to footage shot since Jackson’s death, with fans caught in mourning and awe, from the Apollo Theater to L.A. and beyond.

In the clip’s most pointed moments, Lee focuses several times on a sign that says “Stop The Hatin’,” referring to the coverage of the controversies in Jackson’s life.

It would be impossible, not to mention censorious, for the media to ignore that aspect of Jackson’s life. But none of that has blotted out the very real love fans hold for the star. Nor has it distracted from Jackson’s key placement in cultural history.

In capturing a nice slice of that, Lee’s video delivers on the warmth it went for.

Article Source: www.nydailynews.com

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