"Cunning life! (Also known as the burden of black geniuses)" is a dazzling and authoritative Fangche popular documentary. This is the second "YesDirected by Amir "Questlove" Thompson, he has been upgraded from his first "Soul Summer (... or when the revolution cannot broadcast) "-" - Although the lyrical flashback was beautiful in the Harlem in 1969, it was beautiful. In "Sly Lives!", Quistlov faced Sly Stone's life and heritage, investigated it, raised it to the light, torn it out, and then re -combined it, just like he was him. A brave mixing master. Sly's first popular song is "dancing with music", Questlove hopes that you dance with music, feel it and think about it, understand how it is made, and listen to how its vibration spreads to the world. This is a movie produced by the master and DJ transformation master.

"Cunning Life! 》 Full of profound interviews and extraordinary archives. This is a movie that knows how to think about the content it shows. However, most of the contents occur in a kaleidoscope, making your eyes and ears itchy. This is because while QUESTLOVE adheres to the tradition of classic news documentary, it is going all out to present all this -telling how Sly St 'starts in the late 1960s, how to break through the boundaries and become the magnificent and extraordinary story sound and extraordinary stories and extraordinary stories of that era. The combination of images climbed the peak of a new black reputation, so that he had no choice but to decline. He did it. Dramatic.

This is the meaning of the subtitle of the movie (the burden of black geniuses). Fundamental speaking, Slyin drugs destroyed his success and became an addict of a waste of cocaine. After a while, he seemed to disappear. But this is one of the most exciting themes in the movie. Vernon Reid and André 3000, and D'Gelo and Nile Rogers discussed Sly in the comments, and changed a form of art by inventing many music templates. In the 1970s, he was restrained by his role as a cross -border flower -faced magic flute. His success made him fragile, (movie hints) White pop singers would not be the case, he felt forced to escape it and did this in a most abnormal way. The film did not find excuses for him, but explored the war in his soul.

From all aspects, he is a giant: if you count on the explosive head on his head, his body is tall like a crown, with a bright smile, showing a big teeth, with the dimples, his dress is like an alien. People Patham. As sexy as Mick Jagger, he inherited the heavy subwoofer and rhythmic DNA inherited by James Brown, and gave it wings, and by fusion with popular music and rock music, Improve the style of gram until it is more exciting than the sum of it. Each part of it. He formed a band consisting of black and white, men and women. This was not just a new thing in 1967 (although it is revolutionary from this point), because when you listen to Sly and The When you are in Family Stone, you can Hear The emotions of the band members are very different. They push each other, as if they are three bands at the same time, and then they are miraculously blended together. They pushed down those walls. (Without Slai, there will be no prince.)

Although Slai Stone has a strong aesthetics, it has promoted a happiness into an ideology. We saw the fragments performed by the Slai and Stone family in the "Ed Shalin Show", and Slai walked into the auditorium on the show. Ed's fucking ShatinDo hambone. This is an artist who can turn variety shows into a church.

The story began in 1964, when Sly (formerly known as Silvist Stewalt, 1943) was 21 years old and was already the star DJ of the Bay Area. His amazing charm is shining in every photo, "Cunning Life! "Its dynamic desire is the music method that weaves the image together. Joshua L. Pearson's editing (also edited "Soul of the Soul") is very good, but you can always feel the mix and match temperament of Questlove. Slai rose with his versatile -he performed all his instruments and established his position as a unique producer and composer in San Francisco. He knew how to stimulate the best performance of any musician. (We heard Grace Slick's speech, her first band Great Society recorded the original version of "Somebody to Love", Sly served as the producer.)

But this is the case about Siri: his form of fusion is so influential, so that it is almost difficult to hear how radical it was at the time. In the late 1960s, black artists and white artists were considered separate, and Slai wanted to break this concept. The first album "A WHOLE New Thing" of the Slai and Stone family is too advanced to be popular (this is a commercial advertisement). Slai was told that in order to save the band, he needed to create a popular single. That song is "dancing with music", known as "psychedelic soul" (because they must give it a name). QUESTLOVE deconstructs how it is built on the Mocheng Festival. Those harsh sour numbers, the sound of the sound sounds like a barber shop hovering in space, and then sing with amazing unity. The whole song is hit by a hit. Found its meaning in the sound drive Somehow, it is still ... light. This is a new chemical reaction.

Stone brought this magic complex to a higher and higher level, which is the meaning of "I want to bring you higher". The band performed this song in Waltedstock to the top, and a paradox of the performance was that in 1969, this song was regarded as a mythical abnormal phenomenon (because Slai is the One of the only black headlines at the Woodstock Music Festival), but when you watch it now, you will find that he is the inventor of future music. He wore glasses in the space age and a rough gold chain hanging on his neck. He said: this It is a free voice. This is the music that breaks the chain. Nile Rogers recalled that in the early 1970s, when he joined the Black Panther New York Branch, he "stands up!" With his ecstatic advice, he became the highest praise of the Black Panther. But this may be the national anthem of anyone. Slai's spirit is too generous and cannot be a dogma.

However, it was at this time that the burden of black talents began to appear. We saw a vivid clip of Slai in "Dick Kavit Show". Among them, Kavit's annoying issue was actually a hidden racist master. Although Silai, although emotional at the time, also knew this and refused to yield. He has gained a new star status, but the system relies on this star status, but does not trust him to some extent. This will only exacerbate Stone's self -doubt, and he shrouded this suspicion in Mount Kakin.

The album "There's a Riot GOIN 'ON" launched during this period was unsuccessful, but it has been re -evaluated as the original, uncomfortable bad atmosphere of the truth. I can't sign the contract (for me, it sounds like a medium -middle prince), but it is a gem even buried in the mud. "Family Affair" is not only a great song, but also the first song that uses the drum machine in history. I refer to a primitive synthetic toy. Essence But Sly did something clever and played those cheap drum samples leave Rhythm, massage them into inspiring things.

Slai's degeneration is serious. He has been arrested many times for drug accusations and imprisoned. George Clinton said in an interview in the film that both were addicts. More importantly, Slai was forgotten a bit. He became a shameful foot note in the era he helped to create. I thought he had fallen into the bottom of the valley and became a fragment of human beings, but the movie tells you that this is not the case. We saw his long clip interviewed by Maria Shriver in 1982. He still has angelic eyes and charming halo, and his straightforwardness is convincing. He even tried to show his skills in the MTV era, but failed. We saw him in 1993. When his band was selected into the Rock Hall of Fame, he looked healthier than you thought. Today, there are photos of him and his adult children. He looks old and his hair is pale (he is 81 years old). Although they are crazy, they seem to admire him. He did not interview in the movie, which was perfect. This retains his mystery.

This movie contains a wonderful story, which is telling the producer and composer Jimmy Jam, telling that he and his partner Terry Lewis recorded in a restaurant "Jenny Jackson's rhythm country. At 1814, the sound from the speaker system "Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again", its epoch -making strikes and dial bass — Essence At that time, Harris decided to produce the main song of the album in the six -second sample in "Thank you". Slai Stone's great creative period lasted for four years, perhaps five years. Then he finished. But even after he left, he was still there. This is the result of this documentary, because "Questlove" requires us to observe a fallen genius and listen to the eternal voice.