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Michael is a highly selective version of the singer’s life, and that suits more people than you might think | Nadia Khomami

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Michael is a highly selective version of the singer’s life, and that suits more people than you might think | Nadia Khomami
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It’s not just the money-making studio execs – fans, too, are often happy for the darker parts of a subject’s life to be ignoredLike millions of other people, I went to see Michael this week. I knew what I was getting into – most reviews have been brutal. It is a “whitewash”, “ghoulish”, a “127-minute trailer montage” of “cruise-ship entertainment”. And yet the film of Michael Jackson’s rise to global stardom has broken the record for the biggest opening in biopic history, and made $217m (£160m)

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