Film Analysis: I 'Ll Be Me'

On this writing assignment I will be speaking about Glen Campbell in the documentary "I'll Be Me" directed by James Keach. The film describes the struggle Campbell had with Alzheimer's disease. This film shows not only the struggle but a visual on what Campbell went through. This film aloud the audience to see and feel the courage of Campbell even revealing some medical details about his Alzheimer’s disease. I will be explaining who he was as a musician and attributes that he brought to his era and history. Also, his life story on how he began his journey and became a well-known artist. Also his significance that he made throughout his music career that made him stand out above all. I will go through his years explaining how it all began and
Just as like many musicians there is a point that they are not capable of handling anymore publicity and just break. In his 1994 autobiography he admitted he was a "cheap drunk" and from there on one can start to see more into his personal life. According to Campbell “Success doesn't come for free and in actuality comes with other types of baggage. More money, more stress, but also more time generally”. So he found himself becoming an alcoholic and transitioning to other drugs such as Cocaine. He gave a strong explanation about the abuse of cocaine and when into detail about it. According to Patrick Doyle “Campbell was descending into a devastating addiction to cocaine and alcohol. "The first time I took it, cocaine, it was like your eye was coming out of your head," he says. "Oh, God, it was like a dog that gets into your henhouse and steals your eggs." (p.3). Not long after his addiction problem he married a woman named Kim. She helped Campbell deal with his addiction, “By 1987, with Kim's help, Campbell finally managed to get sober. "I give her all the credit for that," Campbell says. "If you pray from your heart, there will be return mail. I've seen that happen to me." (p.3) Campbell praised her and cherished that she devoted her time on helping
Which was a great achievement in his life he is a piece of music history. In 2011 Campbell announced that he was fighting with Alzheimer’s disease. The disease was effecting his way of life and his family but, that didn’t intimidate his lively hood and kept looking at the positive and trying to give what he can while he can still remember. Also, his friends believed his Alzheimer’s was affecting him since 2003 in which caused him to get in a lot of trouble (3). So even when he was officially diagnosed his friends already knew. He performed with his disease and amazingly he did great until it became more aggressive. In 2013 Glen Campbell published his last song “I’m not going to miss you”. This song was in the documentary “Glen Campbell: I’ll be me” that was released the following month. After that Glen Campbell was fully consumed with his disease and was unable to perform anymore or even interact with his family. 2016 finally arrived in which the Annual ACM Honors was being held and every famous country singer paid their respects to Glen Campbell and awarded him an achievement award in which was accepted on behalf of his