But the story told by “Roadrunner” is richer, darker, and stranger. To a degree, all those factors were at work. The cliché I had in my mind is that Bourdain, by the end, was secretly depressed, that he was drinking far too much, and that the heightened media glare brought on by his romantic but troubled relationship with Asia Argento, as she become a controversial spokesperson for the #MeToo movement (which he did too), overwhelmed him.
So yes, his suicide seemed inexplicable, and we go into this movie hoping that it will shed an essential light on why. His appetite (for food and drink, for experience and pleasure, for wit and words and connection) seemed boundless in his irascible down-the-hatch way, he seemed to love humanity and to love this life. That’s part of what made him such a great TV star - his eagerness to go around the world and broadcast his honest responses to every meal, every situation, every human being he encountered. Every celebrity projects an image, but Bourdain, the disarmingly literate bad-boy punk rock star of the restaurant world, was a compulsive truth-teller who scraped the fakery off every encounter.
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