Rating - *****
As a Nirvana fangirl of long-standing, I certainly shed tears on the day he
died. I was horrified that someone who seemed to view the world in just the
same way that I did was unable to hack it! In no way did I judge him – plenty did,
but the ones who did clearly don’t understand despair…lucky them…
Anyway, I accepted the official account of his death for many years.
After all, this was a heroin addict who was likely married to a bona fide
sociopath! Although he loved his daughter and this love was obvious in every
photograph of the two of them, I knew that Kurt was a depressive sort and
sometimes, depression trumps everything else in life. I didn’t view his suicide
as cowardice.
At some point, I got a copy of Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain and I read it from cover to
cover. It was interesting in that it shed light on Courtney Love’s activities on
the days leading up to Kurt’s death. While I never pictured her as the loving
wife, I did not realize that she was actively scheming in the days before
his suicide. Scheming is really the only appropriate word for what was
happening.
After Love & Death, I still had questions and some of these questions remain in my mind.
For example, if Kurt bought the shotgun and shells, how did Courtney and Cali
know about it, if (as many believe), they planned his death?
Did they find the
shotgun in his closet? Did they wait for him to buy the shells himself?
This was my main qualm. He bought the gun of his volition, with Dylan,
and then he bought the shells. He chose to do that and I’m wondering how they
knew about the gun. That’s my big question…
Perhaps this question has already been answered and I missed the
response, somehow. Anyway…
On the flip side, certain other aspects of the case seemed to point
directly to Courtney’s involvement, including the practice handwriting sheet in
her backpack, the fact that she lied about contact with Kurt to the P.I. (Tom
Grant), whom she hired in order to help her find her missing husband, the fact that she led Grant on a wild goose
chase by telling him that Kurt, who was missing, only stayed in the best
hotels, when he preferred ratholes which were perhaps redolent of down-and-dirty Aberdeen…
So, I would weigh the evidence quite a lot and I must say that the fact that Kurt’s
credit card was used after his death was something that made me very uneasy. I
was startled that the Seattle PD wouldn’t consider this a sign of foul play, as
I did.
I don’t think they did a very good investigation, period.
Soaked in Bleach is a documentary which details Tom Grant’s experiences
while employed as Courtney Love’s personal private investigator. It includes
authentic phone calls between Grant and key players, including Courtney Love
and lawyer Rosemary Carroll. In particular, I give great weight to Carroll’s
gut feelings about the case. She is someone who is trained to think critically
and she knew Kurt and Courtney very well. I find it hard to dismiss her initial
feelings about what was happening. I think her views were probably one hundred
percent accurate.
I don’t want to write an endless review here. In the end, I think that
since the gun is melted down (by Courtney), the greenhouse was torn down (by Courtney)
and Kurt Cobain was cremated (Courtney arranged this), that evidence will never surface which is
sufficient to punish someone for his alleged murder. It’s unfortunate that a
proper investigation wasn’t carried out. It was a terrible oversight and
shameful.
The value of Soaked in Bleach, in my opinion, is its capacity to
puncture the many myths that Courtney Love has created in order to bolster her
own image. The phone calls and dramatic re-enactments in Soaked in Bleach are absolutely sufficient to demonstrate that this woman had pronounced disdain
for her own husband and hid facts which might have allowed Grant to find him
sooner. So, from that standpoint, it’s extremely important.
I view Soaked in Bleach as an antidote to decades of shameless
propaganda and revisionist history from Love, and for that reason, I applaud
Tom Grant and all others who gave this documentary life.
My gut feeling is that certain people are capable of anything, due to
their own sociopathic natures, and I feel that Courtney Love is a sociopath.
However, that’s just my opinion. I have to say that Courtney Love is very
talented in her own right. However, manipulation seems to be an obsession of
hers and there is much evidence to back this up…
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