"On the home movies I saw, Kurt is not meek. Courtney is not dominating him."

"I think this film is really going to challenge people�s perceptions."

In one eye-popping 1992 home video included in the film, Cobain and Ms. Love are seen blissfully living in druggie squalor in Los Angeles. Standing in a towel in the bathroom with shaving cream on his face, Cobain teases Ms. Love about her tabloid image as a man-eating monster. �You and Roseanne,� he says playfully, referring to Roseanne Barr. �You�re tied for the most-hated women in America.� She pretend-pouts....

In [one] lengthy recording, Cobain talks about trying to lose his virginity in high school to a �very fat� girl who attended special education classes. When his peers found out, Cobain felt so humiliated that he panicked. �I couldn�t stand the ridicule,� he says on the tape. �So I got high and drunk, and I walked down to the train tracks,� where he lay down, hoping to be killed.

Major theme: humiliation. Minor theme: fear of fat.

The movie is "Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck," and the moviemaker is Brett Morgen, who made "The Kid Stays in the Picture" (which is excellent).