Alanis Morissette denounces HBO documentary Jagged
Morissette says the film contains “implications and facts that are simply not true.”
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According to The Los Angeles Times, Alanis Morissette has decided to distance herself from the upcoming HBO documentary Jagged (which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival today), explaining that she was “lulled into a false sense of security” by the filmmakers and that their “salacious agenda” became clear when she saw an early cut of the documentary. Morissette says the film was made “during a very vulnerable time” in her life while she was dealing with postpartum depression and the COVID-19 lockdown, and it contains “implications and facts that are simply not true.” She says there is “beauty and some elements of accuracy” in Jagged, but she “ultimately won’t be supporting someone else’s reductive take on a story much too nuanced for them to ever grasp or tell.”
Jagged is directed by Alison Klayman (who previously made The Brink, the documentary about Steve Bannon), and while The LA Times doesn’t know what Morissette is specifically objecting to in the film, it does point out that The Washington Post recently reported that Jagged contains allegations from Morissette about sexual abuse she suffered as a teenager. The Post story says that Morissette doesn’t go into detail, but she says it took her “years in therapy” to realize she had been a victim. She also says that she tried telling “a few people” in the music industry but that it “fell on deaf ears” and would “usually be a stand-up, walk-out-of-the-room moment.” The implication seems to be that, perhaps, Jagged emphasizes that more than it does the 25th anniversary of Jagged Little Pill, but without a specific comment from Morissette or a rebuttal from Klayman or HBO, it’s impossible to say. Either way, Morissette will not be helping to promote the documentary and no longer feels that it’s a truthful reflection of her life or her story.
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And isn’t it ironic? Don’t you think?
Sounds like “Jagged” is a hard pill to swallow.
Isn’t it ironic?
YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
She oughta know.
She oughta know.
If she had a knife to cut the pill, it wouldn’t be so bad.
She could probably reach one if she didn’t keep one hand in her pocket and the other one doing some mundane gesture.
She might have one – she just has to put hand in pocket.
The documentary loses a bit of credibility when it cuts to a 30 minute CGI deepfake recreation of the Dave Coulier movie theater incident. Though admittedly his doing his Popeye impression throughout is an inspired artistic choice.
Yeah… That’s not a deepfake. He’s aging really well.
Yes, the editor should definitely have cut-it-out.
They should have cut it (the scene) out.
Go to hell. Take my star with you.
I was deeply disturbed by Coulier asking her to talk to him in a “Bluto” style voice though.
Full House!
did not expect to laugh here for so long. i was on a business call too
well fucking done! 100000000 Stars!
“Did you document me/Mr Duplicity?/I hate to bug you on the promotional tour.”
“facts that are simply not true”?
Eh, I’ll begrudgingly allow it.4. something said to have occurred or supposed to be true.to check the accuracy of one’s factsWebster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition.2: a piece of information presented as having objective realityThese are the hard facts of the case.Merriam-Webster.com
So I guess Alanis decided to walk away and say goodbye to Jagged.
DEEP CUT!
No Thank U
It’s hard to know without more details, but I always have felt with biographies, if it doesn’t annoy the subject at least a little, it’s probably not being honest. Of course, that’s more with books. With something short form, I guess enough nuance could be lost or focus placed on the wrong areas that it could feel dishonest in what details are left behind.I guess what I’m saying is, I wish more details were out because her being unhappy with it isn’t nearly enough to discount it as unreliable.
Truth. Subject produced bios always leave out the dirt. Looking at you Michael Jordan.
Can you blame Jordan for not wanting to talk about that time he got mixed up in a meth deal and had to beat all those hookers to death with a ‘Freedom-Dildo’?
Or Bohemian Rhapsody which painted the surviving members of Queen – Brian May particularly – as earnest guys who wanted nothing more than to keep effortlessly reinventing the rock genre through their undeniable musical genius while Freddie Mercury selfishly blew up the band because all he cared about was being a big gay cokehead.
Ever tried being a big gay cokehead? The allure can be . . . well . . . alluring.
See also: Straight Outa Compton, where the two most independently successful members of NWA (one of whom is played by his actual son) are seen as brilliant and cool-as-hell rabble-rouser poets, while Eazy comes off as spoiled and easily duped by The Man. Oh yeah, and the rest of the group is barely granted cameos.Christ, that movie sucked.
I was surprised at some of the dirt his documentary was allowed to have. He didn’t exactly look great with the way he treated the Bulls GM. But there definitely is so much more.
I don’t know. I’m a reporter, it’s not that hard to not upset the subject if you get their story right. You can’t be their publicist but still.
I mean, I did have that caveat about it might be different with short form.
“It’s hard to know without more details, but I always have felt with biographies, if it doesn’t annoy the subject at least a little, it’s probably not being honest.”
So, in your mind, a retrospective documentary on a particular and specific album is a “biography”?
Do you know the meaning of ANY words you use?
So someone who rose to fame airing out her heartbreak and
personal tragedy is upset that a bio film is airing out too much of her heartbreak
and personal tragedy. Seems…I dunno, a little…ironic. Don’t ya think?
rather, she called it reductive. it may not only surround her experience with post-partum depression, but even if it did, not surprising that it went misunderstood or portrayed without enough nuance. there’s a long history of not taking women’s pain seriously; this is not new.
Well, that’s ironic.
(in the Alanis Morrissette kind of way.)
don’cha think?
No, this is actually ironic, Alanis.
This is almost as funny as when the other half dozen people already said it before you.
The thing about biographies is that, unless they have a background of journalism and total neutrality without being a bit biased and bored, authors end up hating the person and it always reflects on the writing because it’s not gonna sell.
Not everyone deserves a biography.
She thought you should know.
She got SLIMED. I Don’t Know.
Water!Also:
Canada. Apparently, they all come from Canada.
Ah, Alberta, that explains some things.
Watson?
Proud home of Nickelback!
Too many song references, not enough slime!
Facts are true by definition. She really doesn’t know what words mean, does she?
She shouldn’t have taken that Skee-ball constitutional.
Would it be ironic if Alanis Morissette’s voice actually had the power to make Ben Affleck’s head explode?
We can’t be sure it doesn’t, someone call Jloflak and find out!
Either this is actually ironic or a clever way to promote the documentary. This story actually makes me want to watch it when I wasn’t interested in it before.
She’s got one hand in her pocket, and the other one’s distancing itself from the documentary.
it’s like raaayyyaaayyyain on her wedding day,
it’s like good advieieieieieieieieieice she just didn’t take
about a moooooveeeeee she shouldn’t have made…
and who’d ever thought we’d comment?
I would not have watched this before but now I want too.
implications and facts that are simply not true.Well, if it’s a fact, by definition it is true.