Haring was openly gay and he was also a social activist. Yet this movie does not take a critical approach to either the New York art or gay scene or even of his work. Instead, we have a collection of interviews with family and members of the Keith Haring Foundation.
Certainly we don't want to know only the highs (his association with Madonna) but do we really need to know some of the lows or just the mundane? Do we need to know about his small-town life? Perhaps what we really need to know is how his art, popular during his lifetime, making him one of the few art stars and the antithesis of the starving artist, is now viewed historically. Then we could decide what are the important points of this documentary and we could answer the question: Why is this documentary being made and why is this person more important than any other?
Haring's universe touched many people internationally, but we need to know how the world he no longer lives in evaluates the signs he left behind in ours.
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