"Tupac: Resurrection" seemed like a biopic that looks like an attempt to enshrine murdered hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur as The One. Despite deferential time-lapse meditations on rusted Baltimore chain-link, L.A. tinsel, and Vegas, the interview clips that encompass the sole voice-over are carefully chosen to elucidate both Tupac's scorching personality and unbearable paranoia. .
In "Tupac: Resurrection", Tupac tells his own story, and other close friends and relatives speak only in news clips. The movie is a biopic that relies upon archival footage (some old, some new) to make some sense out of a life that doesn't make any sense when taken at face value. .
In this film, Shakur is omnipresent, for this is his view of his world, through notebooks, poetry, music and a cultured public image. Pac's voice is the narration as the editor tries to opt for a "Pac's eye" view of this world. This makes "Resurrection" controlling and irregular, as in when its initial views swoop in from above. We learn of his difficult childhood, having a fellow Black Panther crack-addicted mother, growing up poor and details of which have the ring of a confessional, meant to elicit a sympathetic "Awww.".
Tupac had "thug life" tattooed on his stomach, but those words were an address, he says. In Pac's words, being a thug is about the poor not taking the tyranny of society any longer, and standing up for their rights. He complicated that message by living a real thug life by perpetrating beat downs on people shouldn't matter. The rapper and his legacy would have us believe they saying, "Do as I say, not as I do.".
"Resurrection" shows us his youth, his rise to fame, his mistakes, successes and apologies. Shakur is capable of immense contemplation and astounding absurdity. The talent is as evident as the awaiting death. This is a life that can't end well, and doesn't.
This film was solely made for Tupac's fans. It goes into great detail about the rapper's life, with new performance and behind-the-scenes footage that Pac fanatics will adore.
Tupac Shakur, pronounced dead at 4:03 pm on September 13, 1996. Six days earlier, the nite of September 7th,1996, Tupac was shot five times and was in jeopardy of his own life. After a boxing match between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Tupac and friend Shuge Nite ...
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