I'm American & a huge movie buff. I was intrigued by the excellent reviews I was reading in August about this from film festival goers. One mentioned a 4-part docu-series on Netflix called Robbie Williams. So I watched that & was so moved by his life struggles & hiw he overcame them. I then fell down his YT rabbit hole - 30+ yrs of videos, interviews & performances! Better Man covers his life from 1984-2003, but there's so much more that came after. He didn't really get clean until 2007 when he met his eventual wife - they now have 4 kids & he's a happy, healthy, lovely gentleman of 50. As to your question, the faces in the crowd were totally representative of his inner demons. In the end, they were approving because he was finally able to accept himself.
The apes in the audience could be seen as his conscience or his guilt, almost like the audience knows that the rock god on stage isnt really him. As much as he has the crowd in his hands he knows deep down he's lying and that hes just a scared chimp. "Spoilers* Also thats never what he really wanted, he kept doing bigger and bigger concerts because he wanted his dad to really see him which is why (for me anyway) that last scene with the two of them is so emotional
I'm American & a huge movie buff. I was intrigued by the excellent reviews I was reading in August about this from film festival goers. One mentioned a 4-part docu-series on Netflix called Robbie Williams. So I watched that & was so moved by his life struggles & hiw he overcame them. I then fell down his YT rabbit hole - 30+ yrs of videos, interviews & performances! Better Man covers his life from 1984-2003, but there's so much more that came after. He didn't really get clean until 2007 when he met his eventual wife - they now have 4 kids & he's a happy, healthy, lovely gentleman of 50. As to your question, the faces in the crowd were totally representative of his inner demons. In the end, they were approving because he was finally able to accept himself.
The apes in the audience could be seen as his conscience or his guilt, almost like the audience knows that the rock god on stage isnt really him. As much as he has the crowd in his hands he knows deep down he's lying and that hes just a scared chimp.
"Spoilers* Also thats never what he really wanted, he kept doing bigger and bigger concerts because he wanted his dad to really see him which is why (for me anyway) that last scene with the two of them is so emotional