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Student’s Name Instructor’s Name English 101 Date Movie review: Searching for Sugarman by Malik Bendejlloul Searching for Sugarman is a well spun and mysterious documentary directed by Malik Bendejlloul that became a major hit when it came out in late July 2012. Despite experiencing harsh financial times during the shooting and production stages, it’s a film that still made it to big screen rating due to the brilliance of how it was spun. The movie takes a biographical nature since the narrative that dominates the set is the story of the man Rodriguez and his musical influence on the people who listened to it. This documentary is an investigative type that tries to explain the destiny of a musician whose music was accepted even without him being well known. It also takes the form of a biography as told through the eyes and the perception of the people who were inspired by the music of a man whose career was at first considered a failure but later on despite the odds; rose to fame to the point of having toured in Australia. But the main atmosphere of the entire film is tied to the mystery. Bendejlloul uses the mystery around the narrative to capture his audience, and that’s the bright silver lining of the whole film. It begins its setting from South Africa where his music was embraced even though knowledge about the image and character of the musician was very ill-known. It’s the story of a man whose music was rejected in his homeland of America but was embraced with passionate and almost crazed fanaticism in a relatively distant and isolated land during the time it was gripped in the debilitating
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