Overview: 20,000 Days On Earth is an inventive, lyrical ode to creativity and an intimate examination of the artistic process of musician and cultural icon Nick Cave.

In their debut feature directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard fuse drama and documentary, weaving a staged day in Cave’s life with never-before-seen verité observation of his creative cycle.

Blu-ray Verdict: The film opens up with a montage of dozens of screens, displaying things from history, which segues into clips of Nick Cave (similar to how Michael Jackson started his last concert tour), and has Cave waking up in his bed next to his wife, narrating that he is an alien and has been on Earth for 19,999 days.

He then goes to the window and opens the curtain to reveal a bright never ending light, which is similar to the cover of Push The Sky Away. And it only gets better from there for instead of having talking head interviews with Cave, his band mates, and friends and family, we take a journey with cave as he drives his luxury car and is visited by hallucinations, friendly encounters, poems, and even a fictional therapist played by Darian Leader who has Cave talk about his childhood and career.

In my humble opinion, this film has a raw feel about it and overall is an honest look at the creative process from the perspective of Nick Cave.

Furthermore, it opens up a line of thoughts (as an aspiring musician) that transformed, inspired, questioned and transcended my way of writing. The pace of the movie was far from slow, (though obviously nor was it anywhere, at any point, fast paced), but it almost reflected Cave’s musical writing style: a kind of creeping epic crescendo, if you will.

That said, the film did fail to completely grip my friend (so he tells me), who I’d rate highly in terms of his cinematic knowledge (working in the industry), despite the fact that he hasn’t really been exposed to much of Cave’s work, and yet he never once moved throughout its viewing tonight.

The cinematography was beautiful, with extremely unique transitions that somehow flowed scene to scene and the soundtrack was obviously excellent, with some stirring performances.

Thus here in 20,000 Days On Earth, Nick Cave is simultaneously eccentric, enigmatic, yet very down to earth and heartfelt. I might just have also caught his heartbeat along the cinematic journey and I hope you do to. This is a Widescreen Presentation (2.35:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs.