Closure

Now, with that being said, why don't I talk about the video itself? It's only been 6 hours since I recieved it and already I fell in love with it! The fan footage before we see Trent and the gang was to be expected for this kind of documentary, and what would it have been without it? I'll talk about the backstage footage only since that was most interesting. It surprised me a bit to see Trent smile the times that he did since the only other previous times I'd seen him smile were in a post-The Fragile photo and in his interview with Kurt Loder before the 1999 VMAs. Seeing band members walking around in thongs, everyone throwing beer bottles at an exit sign, Marilyn Manson (yes, he's in this too in parts) briging in a rotting animal head, Trent and the rest putting powder all over each other, Trent playing and traveling with his dog, Trent in ruby-red lipstick, and David Bowie chatting with Trent about being mistaken for Vanilla Ice proves that anything can happen.

OK, I lied when I said I'd only talk about the backstage footage on tape 1. I HAVE to talk about the Trent and David duo performance of Hurt. I didn't even know it was that song until David starting singing the lyrics. Trust me, it's almost a completely different song musically; it sounds more like a very deep and emotional David Bowie song instead of the original version, which isn't a bad thing. The music itself is very heart-throbbing and it really sounds as if it was written in memory of the desceased.

I popped in tape 2 expecting a typical video collection by any other music artist with just a brief graphical introduction consisting of a caption of the video title. Boy, was I ever wrong, and I'm glad I was at that too! Instead of just a simple collection of videos compiled onto a video tape, Trent created sort of a mini-film with some REAL art to it. Segue material consisted of stuff from old 1950s/60s educational film reels to Thomas Edison's "Electrocuting an Elephant" to some of Trent's own creations such as a dead rabbit being swung against a wall while tied to a rope (pretty graphic stuff I might add). I'll also the videos themselves were presented in much greater clarity than I had expected, considering the only time I'd seen them before was when I had *GULP* downloaded them. Again, the rendition of Hurt on this video caught my attention the most. While still a live performance, it had much better video and audio quality to it than on tape 1. It was also creepy yet emotional as well. The somewhat quieter sound of it along with the footage used on the screen at the concert (especially that of the time-lapse video of rotting animals) gave an almost apocalyptic feeling, at least that's the best word I can find the describe what I mean. Oh, and the footage of Wish kicked, 'nuff said.

Regardless of what one may think of the video and sound quality of tape 1, this is indeed an essential item for any NIN collector and true fan. I personally think it was worth every penny I paid for it, maybe even more.