Death returned Michael Jackson's humanity?

"The Pop Spectacular That Almost Was"
by Manohla Dargis, New York Times
http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/movies/29this.html?8dpc

"Death returned Michael Jackson’s humanity, and in a curious, tentative way so too does “Michael Jackson’s This Is It,” a rushed and ragged monument to the man, his work and the commercial interests of those he left behind. At once a greatest-hits compendium and a suggestive glance at what might have been, the movie — which had its premiere Tuesday and opened Wednesday on a staggering 18,000 screens worldwide — has been so nakedly designed to serve so many different agendas that it seemed unlikely anything would be left for Mr. Jackson’s fans beyond the sheer spectacle of such colossal posthumous exploitation.

Yet something remains here, though it’s hard to know whether it’s the ghost or our love, perhaps both. "


What made MJ inhuman while he was alive? His awesome star power, his "freakishness"? Funny that he had to die in order to for us to be feel like we can relate to him. Suddenly, he is a person.

And yet, the movie, inspired by his death, "has been so nakedly designed to serve so many different agendas." Is that the essence of being human? Certainly that's how I sometimes feel.