Better Man
“🎶 Let me entertain you! 🎶” Brash, satirical and bitingly self-aware, Better Man is a bold biopic about the bad boy of British pop, Robbie Williams that uses a CGI ape stand-in to visualise the pop star’s experiences as a ‘performing monkey’ in a classic stardom story with a unique twist that helps distinguish it from other accounts of famed musical artists. Discussion Points: Director Michael Gracey, known for The Greatest Showman wanted to visualise Robbie Williams’ self-image as a performing monkey, and as a result, we get an entire movie led by a CGI ape stand-in for Williams - like watching Rocketman or Bohemian Rhapsody but with Caesar from Planet of the Apes as the lead. And it bizarrely works. Despite its oddities, you come to settle into this classic rise and fall and rise again of the British bad boy of pop and forget your watching a CGI ape inject heroin, crash cars and sing to adoring crowds. The effects work is immensely impressive, but what else would you expected fr
