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The film portrays Jim as a violent, drunken fool.

That wasn’t Jim.

When I walked out of the movie, I thought, ‘Geez, who was that jerk?’.

Jim didn’t light Pam’s closet on fire. He didn’t throw a TV set at me.

His student film didn’t have images from ‘Triumph of the Will.’

That was totally made up. And Jim never quit film school. He graduated from UCLA. All you see is Jim as a drunken hedonist.

The tragedy is that fame consumed him. But that wasn’t Jim’s message.

He was intelligent.

He was loving.

He was a good man who believed in freedom and in questioning authority.

But you’d never know that from seeing this film.”

— Ray Manzarek