kaleidoscopic

Of, relating to, or produced by a kaleidoscope.

Brightly coloured and continuously changing in pattern, as if in a kaleidoscope.

Like scholars picking over the childhood of Buddha, we want to understand how Lennon became the man he did, but there’s also a purity to this portrayal because it presents Lennon before the prism of fame split him into his kaleidoscopic multitude of facets that allowed artists to imprint their own ideas of what John Lennon was or should have been.