Remove the shattered and upside-down narrative devices like Ulysses, remove the Bob Dylan metaphor of changing times, and remove the cat who comes out every moment to steal the spotlight. In my opinion, this film tells the story of a folk musician, a person who is not very talented, but has some ideals and self-esteem, and is gradually swallowed up by society and reality.
The male lead's band lost his suicidal partner in the process of commercialization. He hates commercial music and has a high identity and self-esteem for his identity as a musician. He was holding a box of works that could not be sold for a penny, but along the way he found that there were people who had the same ideals as himself but hit a wall. He made the hard trip to Chicago, singing expectantly looking at the face of his boss, who told him that your music wasn't selling. He found out that because his incompetent ex-girlfriend gave birth to a child to raise him without telling him, and now he has to bring another woman to the hospital. In the end, the male protagonist learned in the bar that in order to perform on stage, Jean even slept with the bar owner, and the reason why the Jim And Jean band had a large audience was because of Jean's identity as a woman.
The final ending flashes back to the scene at the beginning, which may indicate that this is a cycle. Where is the beginning and end of each plot, and can this musical journey go out of the future?
Tears were shed at the end.
Why can't he just play some folk songs and end it like this. What a dark, true story.
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