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gallons of rubbing alcohol flow through the strip: the startling ingenuity behind gus van sant’s last days written by sloane dzhitenov THE FIRST THING that most people notice about Gus Van Sant’s Last Days (2005) is that Kurt Cobain is on the poster. The second thing that most people notice is that wait, no,
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that somehow isn’t actually Kurt Cobain - not that absurdly famous, yet even more absurdly alienated, ‘defining image of ‘90s teenage suicide’ Kurt Cobain, no. Instead, Van Sant has created his own fake, imitation-Cobain, some other
