Marley movie brings reggae legend alive

There were a number of interesting things about Bob Marley that you will watch for the first time in Kevin Macdonald’s latest documentary-biography of the fallen reggae icon. He was fathered by a white dad though only saw him a handful of times and soon his mother relocated to the U.S, leaving him in the Trench Town.These, as he indirectly admits in several interviews, plus his different trials in life became the realities highlighted in his songs, and in a way making him the voice to the voiceless who were hurting inside.This is all detailed in a the Scottish filmmaker’s movie titled, “Marley”, which profiles the life of the reggae great through the eyes of his friends, former band members, women and childhood associates.It is worth the times but be prepared to carried out in an emotional wreck at the tail end of the documentary, especially moments that preceded Marley’s death on 11 May, 1981, to an irreversible cancer that had already outgrown him. But that is not to scare you. The bio is laden with loads of good stuff, which you did not watch in other documentaries about him like, ‘Catch a Fire’.The bio premiered at Cineplex Cinema in Uganda last Thursday to a select crowd, but should stay showing there for another fortnight, the cinema’s director, Marion Busingye-Etiang said.

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Marley movie brings reggae legend alive