Whitney comes around one year after 2017’s Whitney: Can I Be Me? which was a fascinating documentary about the lady, but even though I didn’t particularly care for her music, I’m always fascinated in a documentary to see what makes people in the public eye tick.
The opening with Whitney Houston singing How Will I Know? is meshed into a montage that is SO ’80s, before melding into the riots taking place in ’60s Newark, the singer’s home town. The film then takes a fairly standard run through her life from start to finish, from the beginnings of her career, through to her family and her father with whom she was often at odds, and with chat from friends and relatives, including her brother, Michael, and mother, Cissy Houston, a gospel singer, as well as archive comments from the late singer, too.
