by Hanley! » Dec 12, '15, 12:13 pm
I haven't seen the film, but I imagine it's interesting. I might try and check it out at some point.
Personally, I've never been a believer in the Kurt was murdered conspiracy theory. Most of the aspects of his suicide which people find suspicious are easily explained away. People say that he took a lethal overdose before shooting himself in the head, but to a hardcore addict who had built up a tolerance, that wouldn't have been a lethal overdose. The slightly different handwriting at the end of the suicide note could be attributed to his increasing level of intoxication. The P.I. that still believes that this was a murder has gotten 20 years of attention out of holding onto that belief. He's not necessarily 100% unbiased here.
It does seem like the police maybe did a somewhat sloppy job, and weren't thorough enough in their investigation. Though even if they had, I imagine there'd still be conspiracy theory nuts who thought Cobain had been murdered because people are like that, and Courtney Love has been hated for a long time so she's an easy scapegoat. It seems to me that the reason that the police weren't that thorough is because it seemed like a pretty open and shut case. Cobain was unstable, he was in constant pain from an undiagnosed stomach disease, he was a heroin addict and he had almost died from an overdose earlier that year. I think Occam's Razor applies here: the most obvious answer is usually the correct one.
I would be interesting to see if this film could convince me differently though. Or even provide a little more doubt. I have read some of the articles and books detailing why his death was actually a murder, and I've argued it with my brother a few times, as he really believes in the conspiracy theory. But I've never been swayed by the arguments thus far. Maybe this documentary does a better job.