This film explores the life and career of the music icon in miniature form.
Several years ago singer/songwriter/producer/musician/fashion icon/designer Pharrell shared an idea with Morgan Neville. Neville, the Oscar-Winning documentarian behind 20 Feet From Stardom, has helped redefine the way a non-fiction film can tackle a subject as nebulous as musical creation and the culture that surrounds it.
This kind of Campbellian arc is toyed with in Neville’s telling, using the tropes of this kind of structured adventure storytelling to not only contextualize his subject’s success, but also to help visualize what otherwise would remain somewhat esoteric.
While the likes of Gwen Stefani, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar and Snoop Dogg appear as themselves the way they would in just about any other music doc, here their own reminisces are sketched out in kinetic ways, crafting something that’s a fabulous collision between the silly and the sublime. Not every story is glowing about Pharell, and some of his missteps are articulated in ways that refuse to shy away from the truth.
'Piece by Piece' Is as Rich as Any Documentary Portrait Ironically, it’s through the use of the medium of a LEGO movie that audiences are granted a greater sense of reality and a deeper dive into the ideas at play. Through this unique approach, we’re taken directly into what Pharell and his fellow participants are attempting to verbally express, finding ways to actualize the ephemeral through this flight of fancy.
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