Wednesday, April 16, 2008
DIAMONDS
Today's film was Julie Taymor's
This wonderful film has three threads: the story of young love, the story of the sixties, and 33 Beatle songs done as we have not really heard them before.
And further, never before as we have seen Beatles music before in their own films and others. This excursion is as fresh and new as anything could be.
We feel the music from a different perspective.
The young unkown actors are terrific.
There are some cameos by vets Bono and Eddie Izzard that cast them perfectly. It is not a stunt to have them there.
All of the Sixties are there as I remember them. The demonstrations, the puppets, the war, the lifestyle, the clothes (more realistically presented—there is not a tie dye in the lot) and, most importantly, the feel of it all.
This must be seen. One cannot imagine it before hand. Even out takes and previews that I have seen have not touched the wonderful reality.
It would certainly be on the Best Film list if the list had gone on this long.
I will give it a 5 out of Netflix5.
