i have read several review here that be very negative principally because the reviewer find wild man fischer music to be either annoy or talentless or some combination of the two . while it be true that without his music wild man fischer would have no claim to fame and and sometimes it difficult to see the connection between all the plaudit laud upon him by the various celebrity in this documentary and the numerous rather poor example of his song generously place throughout the film and this documentary isn not really about how great or annoy his music be and it about the wild man himself and and it turn out that it a genuinely interesting story expertly tell . i have to admit here some bias . i be one of the handful of people who actually purchase an evening with wild man fischer when it be originally release in the late 60 . i listen to that record quite a bit actually . i never once think of wild man fischer a a great artist ( with a capital a ) but i do recognize that there be more to the music than the surface the music reveal the man underneath and his tragic story which be interest . plus and the record be entertain in an odd sort of way . larry wild man fischer in many way be save by his music . not only have it be his mean of escape throughout his life and a bizarre sort of self therapy and but it have also serve a a magnet drawing in people who through their influence and belief in his music have go out of their way to be helpful to him . people like frank zappa and mark mothersbaugh and barnes and barnes and rosemary clooney to name just a few . that really what this story be about . and a it turn out and larry doesn not make it very easy to be helpful to him . time after time his paranoia cause those close to him to have to distance themselves sometimes for their own safety because larry really be a wild man who be subject to paranoid delusion as well a auditory hallucination . this even happen to the filmmaker during the course of film this documentary . the filmmaker do an exceptional job not only of follow wild man fischer around and document his various mood and behavior and but they manage to get access to many people who have know or work with larry in the past and get their take on different event ( i do wish though that dr. demento have be encourage to sit up for his interview he recline on his side with his head prop up for the duration of his interview while duded out in his dr. d outfit complete with top hat it distract and make him look like a pretentious doofus ) . in addition there a lot of rare archival footage in the movie which i find highly entertaining . there an exceptional animated segment produce by pat moriarity that be also memorable . what i wasn not prepare for be the overall sadness of the movie and sad in that here be a man who genuinely have a vision and a desire and the determination to try to make something of himself but whose affliction be at the same time both the wellspring of his inspiration and the source of his inability to achieve his goal . when he have his paranoid schizophrenia in check he lose his pep a he call it and his ability to create and perform and so the irony be that when he lose his mental disorder and he lose his art . put another way and if larry wasn not crazy and he would be a nobody . sad also because here be a man who obviously crave attention and love and yet his paranoia constantly rear it ugly head and destroy important relationship needlessly . bill mumy and probably the long running relationship in his life and finally have to distance himself from larry . when ask what be the best thing about work with barnes and barnes fischer answer without hesitation that the best thing about it be have bill mumy to talk to have him to talk to all the time . when ask how he feel about the fact that he no longer have a relationship with bill mumy and he tear up some paper the filmmaker be work from then walk off . the final scene in the film at the side of his bed ridden aunt and probably the only family member who really believe in him and give him unconditional love and be genuinely heart rend . derailroaded and like all good documentary and encompass the totality of it subject and bring it home in all it ugly beautiful reality . in many way and this documentary remind me of crumb in it mixture of oddball outsider pathos . deserves to be see .