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A film about Dylan's many conjectures
Keenan 2022-04-19 09:02:17
This title is the original title of the movie, which is a bit long, but sums up the movie very clearly. If you want to know Bob Dylan through this film, I am afraid you will be disappointed. People have said that this is just a conjecture about Dylan, conjecture. What kind of person is Dylan? A black boy who roams around on a train with a guitar on his back and dreams of music, a feminine youth who worships Rimbaud, a leader of street demonstrations, a former folk icon and turned rocker who is booed everywhere on tour, a husband who has failed a marriage, a religious convert. Gospel singers, hippie recluses in small towns, they're all Bob Dylans, maybe none of them. The director used six actors to play Bob Dylan, and none of their characters were named Bob Dylan. With freehand rambling structures, seemingly illogical editing, and bland suggestive details, this film is an attempt to reveal the deeper qualities of the subject in the form of abstracts and screenshots. For a biopic, it is unmistakably stylized, avant-garde, even subversive. And for the audience, it may feel nothing, it may feel the whole, real Bob Dylan. Just jokingly, I think most Chinese audiences will probably watch the clouds, because their impression of Bob Dylan is the song "The Answer Blows in the Wind", or the popular song "Learn English by Listening to Songs". ” of the tapes, including me. The Bob Dylan in the film is completely different from such impressions and imaginations. The part of Cate Blanchett's reversal is the most important part of the film. He is a completely personal image of the enemy. And the interrogative, reflective, astute social Bob Dylan that later civil rights and anti-war chants represent is barely mentioned in the film. Blanchett's performance was fantastic and was nominated for last year's Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, but it was a big hit. Of course, there are many Bob Dylan songs in the movie, all of which are very good, but the one that makes me feel the most is the gospel song that Dylan played by Kristen Bell in church.
Extended Reading
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Billy the Kid: People are always talking about freedom. Freedom to live a certain way, without being kicked around. Course the more you live a certain way, the less it feel like freedom. Me, uhm, I can change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am most of the time.
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Jude: [looking up at a giant Jesus on the cross] Do your early stuff!