The Showtime documentary starts with the post SNL concert in New York where she gets booed. The damage it did to Sinead O'Connor's psyche is apparent. If permanently damaged is a face you can make, she makes it. But ya know what she was right when she ripped the Popes picture in two and declared "fight the real enemy". She knew about the sordid history of Catholicism and nobody else did...yet.
The documentary follows O'Connors chaotic life. Her very nature of doing what nobody expects comes from Catholicism. It's a rebellion deeply rooted in dogma you cant logically process. Trust me, I know.
O'Connor burst onto the scene in the late 1980's with that classic album The Lion and the Cobra. The voice, the shaved head, the obvious pain was right there. It was tremendous. She took on religion like a fearless fool. Oh not like Madonna did with her clownishness, but dead on head butting ferociousness. And it cost her. But most pioneers bear the cost of their own ambition.
The documentary, narrated by the present day O'Connor in many segments, really does tell the whole story, from the radio banning her music for refusing to allow the national anthem to be played before a concert, to the SNL debacle, to the suicide of her son. Yes she can be extremely self righteous but Sinead O'Connor was #MeToo before there was a #MeToo.....its a really good 90 minutes.
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