Bono's story on film

Showman: One-man theatre both heavy and light at same time

- Hein Kaiser

It's a film that ends on a high. A kind of unexpected high that's heavy and light at the same time, but biographical in its totality of moment. Bono's Stories of Surrender, now on Apple TV, ends with an incredible rendition, in full tenor armour, with Torna A Surriento or Take Me To Sorrento. It was one of his father's favourite songs. A vocal tour de force for the U2 frontman.

Stories of Surrender was released at the end of last month. It's a monochrome 90-something minutes epic based on Bono's one-man theatre performances after publishing his biography, Songs of Surrender. If you have read the book, appreciation of the show will be immense. If you haven't, it's still a fantastic watch, if for nothing else but the star's showmanship.

It's theatre of the one-man show, brought to life in a style not dissimilar to Rattle and Hum of the late '80s. It's storytelling about the ghosts of life stages past, present and hints of a future. It's about how love and justice drove a man to be loud about his convictions. Father and son, mother and son. Facing the possibility of death when his heart nearly failed in 2016.

In between, Bono's struggle with God, religion, his need to banish his ego and be one of us, ordinary folk.