MICHAEL JACKSON - THIS IS IT

About The Earth.

In the infinite Space the Great Maker created a blue planet called the Earth, a planet for his children. Wonderful, flourishing planet like a loving mother gave people all Her warmth and beauty. And men were happy to live on this wondrous planet among trees, flowers, and grateful people gave the Earth the same tender upendo and care.

But centuries passed and gradually people’s eyes stopped seeing Her beauty, as their hearts became cold. People hid themselves from loving nature behind stone walls of cities, began cutting down trees, polluting rivers and oceans, and hurting the...

"This Is it," Michael Jackson told his mashabiki in London, announcing his forthcoming tamasha tour. "This is the final curtain call." The curtain fell sooner than expected. What is left is this extraordinary documentary, nothing at all like what I was expecting to see. Here is not a sick and drugged man forcing himself through grueling rehearsals, but a spirit embodied kwa music. Michael Jackson was something else.

The film has been assembled from rehearsals from April through June 2009 for a tamasha tour scheduled for this summer. The footage was "captured kwa a few cameras," an opening screen tells...