Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

After being born in Ankara, Turkey, and travel around the world, with just twenty years John Mellor made his living as a gravedigger in the UK somewhere. With the strength just to dig the graves, the work lasted until he was caught taking a nap on one of the graves. The fate of the protagonist of this story, which occurred before he was baptized as Joe Strummer car, just might be the punk-rock icon.
The documentary "Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten", directed by Julien Temple (author of numerous works, including the Sex Pistols documentary "The Filth and the Fury") is a journey through the life of the charismatic leader of The Clash . Start announcing his death on the radio (resource for later use in documentaries such as "When You're Strange," about the legendary The Doors), to then tell their story from the beginning.
Son of a diplomat, Strummer spent his early years traveling from country to country, to go to stop a boarding school in England. After finishing school, he moved to Wales to study art. Although his career as a student failed, it served to establish a deeper relationship with music: The Vultures was born and his first group. However, this first experience did not last long, and moved to London, where he became acquainted with the movement and founded The 101e'rs Okupa, his first successful band. During this time when he meets one of the key people for the creation of The Clash, Bernie Rhodes, because it was he who contacted the other members of the band.
The narrative is constructed from Joe Strummer's own statements, mostly off, and different people who passed through his life (friends, girlfriends, co-group ...) as well as various personalities from culture, as Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Steve Buscemi, Bono or Flea.
Premiered at Sundance in 2007, "The Future Is Unwritten" took the prize for Best Documentary at the British Independent Film Awards and shows us a multifaceted Joe Strummer: the attentive friend, concerned that all who were his around her feel comfortable, loving father, and the hard rocker who does not voice trembles when without any members of your group the benefit of the band, in short, a complex person. As he said, "I do not know what I want, if I did not bother looking for it."
"Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten" is a commendable portrait of one of the leading figures of contemporary rock (which complements the Spanish documentary made in 2011 "I have a hardware store in Andalusia", over the years that Strummer spent in South of the Peninsula) but in my opinion, has a basic flaw: throughout the whole film is not a single sign indicating the name of the person being interviewed, sometimes making it difficult to identify. Still, do not miss it.