What difference Michael's death made, I don't know. It can be said that This is it is the first time I saw him alive, not just a singer and dancer on the screen, an entertainment superstar. Since I never knew him and was not disturbed by any information, my feeling of watching This is it is direct, simple, clean and true.
The intuition was so indescribable, the contrast was so jarring that I had to quickly record the sensations I could capture.
I saw Michael's large hands, disproportionately large, in stark contrast to the bony frame of his slender limbs. But I think if you are held by those hands, it will feel very warm.
His face, unusually white and unusually stiff, was a huge contrast to the healthy dark skin he had when he was a child, and it was even scary. But I felt that it was his mask. Behind the mask, there was a naked, soft and fragile heart.
His dancing and singing are so passionate and unparalleled, he burns like a flame on the stage, as if he was born for music, for rhythm, and every cell exists for rhythm. Like other geniuses, music was his calling, the world for which he gave his life and soul. However, his voice turned out to be so incomparably gentle, and his smile was as pure and innocent as a child. Everyone on and off the stage is stronger than him, he is so delicate that he will fall down at any moment, and when the music starts, he is the center of the world, the king.
Such a world superstar, his attitude towards the people around him is so humble, soft and kind.
I've never seen any singer, no, the word singer is such a disservice to him, a music artist, as dedicated to music as he is, he seems to be outside everything in the world, music is his life itself. Producing, distributing, making money, is what other people care about.
He speaks softly, dances passionately, sings passionately, full of infinite love and tenderness, yet so helpless and so lonely. No matter how big the stage is, how small is the home he returns, how crowded the audience is, how lonely he is when he is alone, how exciting the screaming is, how lonely his ears are after the curtain is over.
Fans all over the world are obsessed with his music. But at the moment when Michael softly asked the keyboard player to remove an extra note for him, he exuded an incredible charisma that made me absolutely overwhelmed and moved.
I saw everyone around him on the stage, and I saw you, me, him, such ordinary people. And seeing Michael, I see, he is definitely not you or me.
This is it performance in London was supposed to be the end of Michael's life, but this movie keeps Michael alive in our memory forever.
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