Soaked in Bleach (2015)
This documentary dramatised presentation can be best described as a conspiracy theorist's assertion that Kurt Cobain's, the frontman of Nirvana, alleged suicide was no suicide, but a pre-meditated murder by his soon to be ex-wife, a fellow drug junkie, Courtney Love aided by a lackadaisical incompetent police work by the Seattle Police Department. It is based on the works of a private investigator, Tom Grant, who ironically was hired by Love to find Cobain who ran away from a rehabilitative facility. Grant recorded his conversations with his employer when he discovered that she started giving confusing and contradictory instructions to him. He thought its was better to document everything.For the record, Cobain was said to have pulled the trigger after a lethal dose of heroin and the event was deemed as a suicide. The film aims to show that perhaps Love hired the investigator to help to track down Cobain and with the help of another junkie help to fake a suicide.
The couple was heading to divorce and prenuptial agreement asserts that Love tend to benefit from his death. Through re-creation, the film tries to convince us of their theory.
After all these years, I am surprised that Tom Grant, the investigator, is allowed to go on ranting these accusations. I wonder why Love, living in a litigious society, has not charged him for defamation. After all, the legal process had earlier finalised its investigations and had stated suicide as the cause of death.
