Just from the stunning clips, this may very well be the best use of Beatles songs that I have ever seen...
Aside, I want to see All This and World War Two, but I can't find it anywhere around...
On MSN, the Associated Press movie critic, Christy Lemire seems to miss the point of the movie and also miss the point of the sixites...
You'd have to be a nostalgic boomer, a hopeless romantic or Paul McCartney to fall completely in love with "Across the Universe" and all its indulgences and idiosyncrasies.
http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?m=730819&mp=cr#Review_0Doesn't she realize the whole 60's were about indulgences and idiosyncrasies...
People were trying to find themselves in a world completely changed from the one they knew as a child...
What better way to deal with that then indulge yourself in the counter culture complete with as many idiosyncrasies as you could muster...
She ends her review with this:
But too often, it feels like we're skipping through history, touching down lightly on key moments and cultural phenomena with no fresh insight. It's highfalutin karaoke with a happy ending.
People who were involved with the counterculture felt like they were skipping through history and they did touch down lightly where ever they went because you wanted to be free but there was the war and then women rights, race issues environmentalism, Migrant worker's...
Everything was coming at everybody all at once. The whole of American culture, because of pop music, pop culture and television, was bursting out everywhere and the only way to deal with all of that change and information was to try and grab hold somewhere, somehow and try to survive...
To understand the 60's, you have to imagine if you lived in a cave with only certain stimulation and then suddenly you were thrust into a maelstroms of ideas, intellectual possibilities and change, baby, change...
Today it seems quaint, especially in this world were everything and anything can be experienced... If you can think it, you can get it...
Now try to imagine that you didn't even know how to think outside of the box and all of a sudden, BAM, it was all there...
Yea, that was the sixties...
At least to me...
I'll go see the movie since it is about the music of my early days...
And yea, I'll get nostalgic and maybe even shed a tear or two about a past that is no more...
And maybe that was all Julie Taymor was aiming for when she put together this movie...
If you want revelation about the sixties, turn to PBS...
If you perhaps want to glimpse what it may have been like to be in the middle of all that change...
Go see Across the Universe...
I can't wait...
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