seems that Sam Taylor Wood is a courageous director. The first time he made a feature film, he dared to touch Lennon, a legendary figure who has fans. At the same time, Wood is a smart director. She avoided the "Beatles Era" and chose the youthful age, giving a youthful trajectory full of sprouting and restlessness, rebellion and distress, and showing the music with a delicate and smooth narrative. How the Wizards were born. Wood is also a bold and capable director. She chose the young "Lennon" (played by Aaron Johnson) and the young "McCartney" (played by Thomas Sangster). Gives a sense of deja vu, the more reminiscent you go to the back.
The film is authentic in restoring Liverpool’s appearance at that time, with a reminiscence-like tone, and a precipitation-like color. Everything is just as the "Daily Telegraph" said-"Sam Taylor Wood proved himself with this film Not only an excellent visual artist, but also a talented director. With the joint efforts of her and photographer Mike Garvey, Liverpool in the 1950s came to life on the screen. "Street scenes, bedrooms, furnishings, markets, etc. Reappearing with the characteristics of the times, especially the bazaars of that era, this place closely related to pop musicians can always bring a lot of memories and imaginations to the audience.
The film that tells the story of musicians is naturally inseparable from music. The title "Nowhere Boy" is imitated from the Beatles' "Nowhere Men". The QST of the film is like a pop music platter. At the beginning of the film, the Beatles starred in the movie "One Night" The opening music of "Carnival" ends with the song "Mother" written by Lennon to his deceased biological mother Julia in 1970. There are songs by Jerry Lee Lewis, The Nowhere Boys, Elvis Presley, Eddie Cochran and others. People who like rock and roll can live the addiction.
"Nowhere Men" has lyrics that sing: "He has always been a wanderer, he can go wherever he goes, he is home from all over the world, he is not for whom, he is unknown, he has no thoughts, and no direction. Is he a bit like you and me?" Indeed at some levels Human beings are interlinked. Everyone has struggled and bored during his teenage years. The 15-year-old John Lennon was no exception. His struggle and resentment came from a period of misfortune in his childhood, and also from the custody of his two mothers. "Scramble".
Before Uncle George's death, John lived a simple and carefree life at Aunt Mimi (played by Christine Scott Thomas), although occasionally, the shadow of being "abandoned" by his parents in his childhood would harass him. But this time is mostly beautiful and relaxing. For example, when George introduced the radio to John's room, John was very happy when he listened to the radio. The sudden death of George brought John back to a fatherless state, and the appearance of his mother, Julia (played by Ann-Marie Duff), who had not seen him in 10 years, caused disturbances in his family's belonging.
Mother Julia is the opposite of Aunt Mimi. Julia is enthusiastic and lively, obsessed with pop music, dressed in bright and fancy, her love is obvious and unrestrained, and Mimi is old-fashioned, loves classical music, dresses elegantly, her love , Implicit and reserved. It can be said that John is happy. Both mothers love him. At the same time John is also unfortunate. The two mothers are vying to love him. They are like two wrestling ropes tearing and pulling John's heart, making it more difficult for children in the rebellious period. .
Julia may not be a competent mother, but she is a good playmate and mentor. She took John into rock music, watched documentaries about Elvis, and taught John to play the banjo, and coolly told her son "Rock music is actually a kind of Sex". Just as my aunt said, "She will hurt you." John, who enjoyed a brief period of maternal love and sympathy with his mother, had to leave after all-his mother chose the existing family instead of John. As a result, music became an outlet for youth to release gloom and anger. John formed a band to vent and explode. At the age of 17, he met Paul McCartney, who was two years younger than him. Since then, the famous twin stars in the history of popular music have met. Paul taught John the guitar chords, as if to give John the wings of music.
Life is always unexpected. When a problem is solved, new misfortunes will come. After Julia and Mimi have cleared their suspicions, Julia has encountered a car accident... After this change, the teenager has to grow up, and growing up is also a kind of Pain requires a price, and John’s price is heavy.
It may be a good thing that Aaron Johnson was not selected as Harry Potter, giving him the opportunity to play a variety of roles. This time he performed the character and entanglement of young Lennon. Although there were a few scenes ignited, two of them were quite good. One was when she heard her mother’s current husband persuade her to let John go back to his aunt’s house. After suffering, he offered to leave the next day, with a smile on his face, but the audience clearly felt the tears in his heart. The other was a performance by the band after his mother's car accident. John's expression when he sang "Hello Little Girl" was devoted and sad. Thomas Sangster, the "love boy" in "True Love First", has grown up. His teenager Paul is talented and ideal, and there is also a trace of the gloom of his mother's early death. When he comforts John who also lost his mother, he has a feeling The emotion of regret is spreading.
Although Kristen Scott Thomas is a supporting role, her drama is still moving. Her Aunt Mimi is a person who doesn't express his feelings easily, and occasionally talks about her true feelings, and she will make duplicity "Don't be stupid." At the end of the film, when John needed to apply for a passport and asked his aunt to sign the form with his parents or guardian, his aunt asked him which one to count. John said they were both. There were tears in his aunt’s eyes. After John left, a series of expressions flashed on his aunt’s face. Can't give up worrying. The end caption stated that for the rest of his life, John would call his aunt every week... After experiencing some crises, life and death, the boy perceives love, grows up, and wants to go to a wider stage. In his heart, the same is true. Loving her mother as ever, and full of regrets that can never be remedied.
"Mother, you own me, but I never own you, I need you, but you don't need me..." At this moment, listening to Lennon's singing at the end of the film, I have another feeling in my heart.
Film OST track:
01. Jerry Lee Lewis-Wild One
02. Dickie Valentine-Mr Sandman
03. Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats-Rocket 88
04. Elvis Presley-Shake, Rattle & Roll
05. Wanda Jackson-Hard Headed Woman
06. Screamin' Jay Hawkins-I Put A Spell On You
07. The Nowhere Boys-Maggie May
08. The Nowhere Boys-That'll Be The Day
09. Eddie Bond & The Stompers-Rockin' Daddy
10. Eddie Cochran-Twenty Flight Rock
11. The Nowhere Boys-That's Alright Mamma
12. The Nowhere Boys-Raunchy
13. The Nowhere Boys-Movin' and Groovin'
14. Big Mama Thornton-Hound Dog
15. Gene Vincent And The Blue Caps-Be-Bop-A-Lula
16. Aaron Johnson-Hello Little Girl
17. The Nowhere Boys-In Spite Of All The Danger
18. John Lennon-Mother
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