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Rating: "I don't want to change the world, I let the songs I write express my feelings and emotions. For me, happiness is the most important thing, and if I'm happy, my work shows it. In the end, all the mistakes and all the excuses are only mine to bear. I like to think that I've only been myself, and now I just want to have as much joy and serenity as possible, and to store as much life as I can for all the little time I have left to live."
(Freddie Mercury's last interview of '91)
Just the name, Freddie Mercury, is enough to evoke old memories! That Queen is loved and hated is beyond doubt, but in this dvd, that hardly matters, because here the theme is another and much deeper: it's solely Freddie with his life and his death. Surely, we've all followed his tragic human story, marked by destiny at a time when the world became aware of another, new, terrible disease ready to strike: AIDS.
The Untold Story is a documentary that recounts the life of Freddie Mercury through the voices of those who knew and loved him: relatives, friends, collaborators, and producers.
Remember the touching scenes of emotion at the inauguration of the statue in Montreux, placed in the main square of the city (under which the dedication by his workmate and friend Brian May "Lover of Life, Singer of Songs" was engraved, giving the title to the album and the DVD).
Truly exceptional and heart-rending, it starts from Freddie's exotic origins, passing through his school years between India and England, his years of success and happiness, to his very sad last years, with many truly moving testimonies describing Freddie, who was now living reclusively in his home, daily sedated by painkillers because he "suffered horribly".
Here, musical preferences don't matter; it's just an opportunity for those who wish to know a great character of modern history who has given and still gives strong emotions to many people, in all his extravagance, shyness, majesty, and sensitivity.
In conclusion:
It is a great product that pays tribute to this great artist, striking at the heart thanks to its extraordinary dramatic quality and one that every admirer of Freddie Mercury should own, unlike all those collections (except for exceptions) released after his death that instead of honoring him seem almost to defame him.
A phrase that struck me greatly is, when Freddie, now sick, finds himself playing Scrabble at his house with a friend, and when they finish, she gets up to leave, and he, with the few remaining forces, says to her: "thank you for spending the evening with an old man".
From these small things, one can understand how a person could be "great" beyond the artist.
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