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The new world of information era tells us to be very wary and carful what we perceive as truth.My parents said it quite simply,if its too good to be true,it probably isn't.Released in 2012 and running 86 minutes,this s a truly inspiring story of fame that comes many years after the fact.But is it??I took 1 and 1/2 stars off not because I didn't believe what I saw,but for what I didn't see.Many questions were posed and never really answered.When Mr Rodriguez was on Imus last year promoting this documentary even Imus remarked that this man still seems to have a complicated life,and that from a man who should know,get the drug and booze and women reference??I only mention this because we meet Rodriguez's 3 daughters in this film BUT not their mother or mothers.So what I guess I'm really saying is that it seems TOO good a story and I wanted some dirt to make the WHOLE truth be more believable.Still recommended with a trailer URL following the picture and a IMDB summary below.
In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career with only two well received but non-selling albums. Unknown to Rodriguez, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon and inspiration for generations. Long rumored there to be dead by suicide, a few fans in the 1990s decided to seek out the truth of their hero's fate. What follows is a bizarrely heartening story in which they found far more in their quest than they ever hoped, while a Detroit construction laborer discovered that his lost artistic dreams came true after all. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
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