Ok I love it.
*******Major spoiler alert (does a documentary need this?)********
Do I wish there are more live footages resurfacing in the movie? For sure. Do I hope the movie covers more Zeppelin's journey after 1970? Absolutely. But I love what we got. The fresh, raw, young people who were inspiring and inspired, so in love with music and their dynamics, the unbashful heroes of the story. The three old man walking down the memory lane reliving the years with the audience, listening to the interview recording of an old friend and smiling. Just beautiful.
Jimmy is still very obsessed and particular with his narratives and knows every single details. The joy in his eyes when he saw the Bath footage and said this was the first time I saw the motions of our earliest performance in England. John Paul's dry humor and his dad, his dad was everywhere in his interview lol "I thought we would get a really cool singer and then met this maniac with crazy vocal and range" "I didn't think anybody would remember the band name 'Led Zeppelin' but I couldn't come up with a better one so whatever". Robert with the tinkles in his eyes and made the audience laugh every time, how Bonzo was so young and alive in his stories, how he pointed at the first two lines of the lyrics of Ramble On and said this is the story of my life.
And Bonzo, the major narrator of the documentary, because he lived the moments and is still living the moments, forever there in the 70s. His interview recording connects the whole story together and I'm so in love with the last scene in which Jimmy, John Paul and Robert sat there and listened to Bonzo narrating their younger years, Robert with unshed tears in his eyes.
And it ended at the glorious moment of their lives, making the piece purely happy and nostalgic without any of the darkness later on. Fits the topic pretty well, if anyone wants to make a follow up documentary, just for the sake of cheekiness, please name it Unbecoming Led Zeppelin. I would watch it.
