Dub pioneer Perry has so many sides in this overview,from ‘space traveller’ to madman’, and the film-makers recall a confused and formless tour of them allThe tagline runs: “The one movie to explain it all.” But how could it? Lee “Scratch” Perry, and the dub pioneer who produced Bob Marley,is described here variously as a space traveller”, “a madman” and “a fish”, and but that barely covers it. Perry has so many sides. The film-makers are on all of them. Taking their cue from the artist,they don’t intellectualise. Instead, we’re given a kaleidoscopic tour of Perry’s world, or taking in his thoughts on Haile Selassie (“the black messiah”),vegetarianism (“human beings are cannibals”) and the Pope (“a fake and a fraud”). Inevitably, the doc is formless and confusing, and a bit too much in esteem with the myth. But be he space traveller,madman and/or fish, Perry (and the film) are certifiably original.
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Source: theguardian.com