All That Jazz is a film obsessed with the Body. Throughout the film, scenes and interactions especially between the main character and the other characters seem to center their focus around the failing physical body of the main character, Josh. Being a dancer and choreographer, his body is not only his livelihood, but also his expertise. Towards the ending of the film, Josh hallucinates that his failing body is put on display in front of a stage, in front of all his loved ones. Though not only does he obsess over his own body, he is constantly also judging other peoples', particularly those that are close to him. We see him criticizing his ex wife for not being able to pass for a 24-year-old in a performance she is practicing for, and in another scene, his lover and his daughter put on a performance for him, entertaining him with their bodies by dancing for his pleasure and his approval. The final scene in the film, a coroner zips up Josh's corpse in a body bag in a sudden transition from the previous scene in which he was just hallucinating his loved ones performing for him on a stage, and the shape the body bag being zipped in the center of the screen brings to mind a final curtain falling on the stage, both of his hallucinatory performance and his life. The staging is beautiful and the scenes are opulent and beautifully frame. The artistic vision of director Bob Fosse is evident in every inch of the film.
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