Blake is NOT Kurt Cobain - try to understand that

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This film is a loose interpretation of what Cobain's last several days might have been like.

No, it's not 100% accurate, nor did it attempt to be, but make no mistake; Kurt Cobain's final days are the sole source of inspiration for Gus Van Sant's Last Days.

Now, if some changes were made to accomodate the wishes of the Cobain Estate and avoid a lawsuit, I can't say. But to infer Gus Van Sant's Last Days shares many similarities with the end of Cobain's life by way of coincidence is just disingenuous at best, regardless of whatever disclaimers Van Sant taked on during the end credits.

Of Kurt Cobain and the entire cultural movement surrounding him and surrounding River Phoenix and infecting LA that Van Sant himself was a part of and focusing on in his films.

Blake is all of it, and he's also an allusion to William Blake's visionary gesalt, and the entire film is a contrast against William Blake's visionaryisms, perhaps in order to tell viewers that Cobain and the entire cultural movement Van Sant is referring to and all youths in general were gifted fallen visionaries and potential visionaries whom have been and are being destroyed by this world. That our society/culture is wrecking our Youth and destroying their imaginations, their creative instinct, their vision, their Hope, their basic faith in life.

For example, William Blake felt that the fragmentation and emptiness of most people's lives could be best understood through a myth of the fall of man, but Blake/Kurt's fall magnified the fragmentation and emptiness; William Blake felt the prophet saw all the misery and bewilderment resulting from the fall, but Blake/Kurt didn't care; William Blake felt the prophet dreamed dreams for change and renewal, but for Blake/Kurt dreams and making music were an escape; William Blake championed that the purpose for art was for all people to share in the vision, but Blake/Kurt was largely indifferent and even opposed to sharing his music; William Blake felt that when one finally achieves a clear vision of the human community that should exist, one works towards that goal and one's work and life have meaning, but Blake/Kurt lacked that vision so his work and life had no meaning and thus he took himself out of the world, and a last example, William Blake felt that significant change could only occur through the radical regeneration of each person's own power to imagine, but Blake/Kurt's method of radical regeneration was death, and what he did terminated his ability to imagine, and his suicide did not regenerate the imagination of anybody, instead it negated creative energies and nullified hope.

And William Blake's vision of Christ resembled Blake/Kurt -

The Vision of Christ that thou dost see
Is my Vision's greatest enemy.

Blake/Kurt an enemy because he's countercultural, and because he's unwittngly leading followers down the "wrong" path (drugs)

Thine is the Friend of all Mankind;
Mine speaks in parables to the blind.

Only a certain segment of people identified with the meaning of Blake/Kurt's lyrics

Thine loves the same world that mine hates;
Thy heaven doors are my hell gates.

Blake/Kurt/Wasted Youth Landscape "hates" the world, is marginalized by the world, lives counterculturally and in opposition to the world

A lot of the people who are saying "this isn't meant to be kurt" obviously don't know that much about nirvana and kurt. If this wasn't meant to be kurt, then he wouldn't have worn the same clothes:

http://www.interpunk.com/itemimages2/153630.jpg

Those sunglasses, even that hat

http://www.openingceremony.us/userfiles/image/news/dec10/121410-christian-roth-sunglasses/121410-christian-roth-sunglasses-1.jpg

The shotgun.

The drag act.

The greenhouse is exactly the same.

Hair is exactly the same style and colour. Body is exactly the same build.

Daughter and estranged wife.

A private investigator searching.

Hell, blake even has the same gear as kurt! There's a blue competition fender mustang he uses and there is a boss DS1 in the room where he plays his acoustic. Though the guitars are right handed, I think that is more to do with the fact that Michael Pitt is a right handed guitarist and he played stuff live on set.

There would have been no need to get these meticulous details correct if this were not meant to be kurt. How anyone can say this "isn't meant to be kurt" is beyond belief.

I think he called the character Blake to avoid the consequent trouble of having to deal with the inaccuracy of facts or the scorn of fans who would eventually take this as grave robbery. Any arguement you'd like to get into? It's not Kurt, it's BLAKE! But it's totally square of you to disregard the fact that this whole thing IS an imaginary portrait of Kurt's last days.
He wants to share his idea of what Kurt's last days would have been like but then he doesnt show him do drugs. I love Kurt too but everyone knows that back then Kurt Cobain = HEROIN. Why didn’t he show him do drugs? “Not to be disrespectful?” But then he shows the famous body in the greenhouse shot.