Unlike drug-fueled personal conflagrations, this holds none of the entertaining catastrophes. That doesn't make it any more enjoyable to watch. The incessant self-destruction of anti-hero Neil McCormick borders on absurd, until you learn it's largely true. "Killing Bono" is the marginally true story of how one guy didn't make it, and repeatedly almost did. There is no Hollywood payoff, where the plucky kids do make it. This is probably why I didn't really like "Killing Bono", Hamm's "tribute to failure."Īt its core, that's exactly what this is. We don't want to hear about it, much less think about it. A sort of fatalism that, yep, everything is probably going to go pear shaped, so don't be surprised when it does. But with Americans, and our chronic Horatio Alger optimism, the mere mention of failure is like a cancer. It was his opinion that the average Brit accepts, possibly even expects, failure. Director Nick Hamm had an interesting take on the reception of his movie, "Killing Bono", with American versus British audiences.
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