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“Tupac: Resurrection” seemed like a biopic that looks like an attempt to enshrine murdered hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur as The One. Despite deferential time-lapse meditations on rusted Baltimore chain-link, L.A. tinsel, and Vegas, the interview clips that encompass the sole voice-over are carefully chosen to elucidate both Tupac’s scorching personality and unbearable paranoia. In “Tupac: Resurrection”, Tupac tells his own story, and other close friends and relatives speak only in news clips. The movie is a biopic that relies upon archival footage (some old, some new) to make some sense out of a life that doesn't make any sense when taken at face value. In this film, Shakur is omnipresent, for this is his view of his world, through notebooks, poetry, mus