So you like the Beatles? If you'd like to see a very creative and different perspective on the Beatles and the many dimensions of their music, you should see the movie, Across the Universe.
First of all, the music is excellent! Of course it is . . . the entire score was composed by John, Paul, George, and Ringo. The movie is a musical and all the songs are Beatles songs. The movie chronicles U. S. history through the 1950's, 60's and 70's, through their lyrics. It gives you a totally different visual image of the lyrics we all know well.
Like the Beatles, the movie begins very simply and innocently with a story of young love and little conflict. The middle of the movie goes psychedelic and a little drug induced with a Dead-like LSD bus ride, a cameo by Bono as "the Walrus," and a fairly risque New York lifestyle. In the end, everyone ends up much more sophisticated, mature, and on a rooftop singing, "All you need is love."
Overall, I would give it 5 stars. It was very creative. The voices were strong! The choreography was entertaining and I liked it!
In other news . . . the Red Sox are in the World Series and Louisiana elected its first non-white governor since Reconstruction. (Interestingly, though, his parents were immigrants from India.)
2 comments:
Justin and I saw this last week and loved it as well. We bought the soundtrack on the way home. And... LOVE the Red Sox comment! Go Boston!
Yes, I thought it was good, too. I ordered the soundtrack from Amazon, so I'mm going to have to wait a week or so to get it.
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