1. Rock 'N' Roll. There is a difference between Rock Music and Rock 'N' Roll: the former is a wide-ranging form of music, while the latter encompasses not only the former, but more of the pop culture derived from Rock Music. Rock wasn't great in the first place. According to Tom Petty, "rock is an attitude, and the music itself doesn't have to be good." According to Lester Bangs in the film, it was "gloriously and righteously dumb". Rock can be about the music itself, or it can be about pretending or fucking.
My favorite rock was the 1950s and 1960s, because rock at that time was good music despite its meaning - rebellious, unlike in the 1970s where there was only attitude and no content, and because there was no content Attitude itself also becomes impossible to justify. If the 1960s celebrated the good (or not) of the world through music, the 1970s sang the void through nothingness—at least in America. At this time rock has nothing to do with music, Lester Bangs said in the film that this is "very dangerous time for rock 'n' roll; the war is over and they've won. These people'll ruin rock 'n' roll and strangle everything we love about it.” This film clearly tells you that the rock and roll of these gangsters in the 1970s has nothing to do with music: several interviews with different people “What do you love about music?” The answers given have nothing to do with the music itself, Even groupies are more important than music; in my mother's opinion, there is only one sentence left: THEY'RE ON POT. However, they still feel that attitude is precious, they are great, and they desperately want to pull you in, make you feel cool and that you belong, it seems that you also have the so-called "crazy youth", but in fact it is an illusion. These are all issues deeply buried under the glitz and hypocrisy of that era, and it is probably difficult for those who have not experienced it to capture (write) this complex emotion of love and hate. I think the director is not showing the greatness of Rock 'N' Roll, but laughing at it, how superficial and stupid it is as a lifestyle. At this time, as a viewer, I feel that I am really old, and I can jump out and see this instead of diving in like any hot-blooded young man at the mention of rock 'n' roll, but the other side is really still Not degraded to the point of not being able to appreciate that ecstasy.
2. Bowie. This is actually a point of my selfishness; I watched "The History of Rock and Roll" before, and when the seventh episode finally talked about the 1970s, I was so excited that I finally started to talk about Bowie. Afterwards, I just clicked on the Velvet Underground to comfort myself. The whole 1970s was too crowded with demons, but I was still quite sad that Bowie in the 1970s didn't seem to be as important and icon as I thought. But he's pretty good in this one, appearing three times in a conversation, once on the cover of a magazine, once in the background music, and once with his hair showing. Hmm very satisfied. I think Bowie is the real seventies. (≧∇≦)
3. Penny Lane. These girls who tour with the band and have a relationship with them are called groupies, probably acting as "road girlfriends"; a very famous groupie is Sid's Nancy. One guy in the band found Sid after he refused to get dumped by a guy. In this film, Miss Penny Lane calls herself band-aid. The version I watched had no subtitles, so I always thought it was bandaid, and there was no difference. They were all used up and thrown away, just word play. The girl is young, loves fantasies, and is full of youthful enthusiasm and contradictions: on the one hand, she knows that this is not her so-called "real world", on the other hand, like any teenage girl, she can't stand rock star's sweet words - "You really retire On that day, how much will rock and roll lose?”, persuaded himself that maybe he really loved her; on the one hand, he said that it was all because of the music, but on the other hand, he was the only one who loved him, or he simply and rudely pursued an illusion. It can only be said that I understand the feeling of "I like it so much without a reason", the frenzy of "I think his every move, every frown and smile looks good", the kind of "hearing his voice instantly fills my heart with roses." "The softness; the kind of star chasing that has the least reason and the least repayment, and only underage girls have the ability or qualifications. Like William said, she is the biggest fan. "If I ever met a man in the real world who looked at me in the way you just looked at me..." Fortunately, the girl finally found this person.
And then the film is as a whole...lol is actually a comedy; 162 minutes is a bit slow, but it's real, I can really sigh and feel the essence of the rotten mental state of that era; Kate Hudson's face is so flat, but when he laughs, it pulls people's hearts It hurts in the first place; my mother's acting is great.
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