Universal Pictures and director Danny Boyle offer a playful take on the Beatles' music based on the movie Yesterday's Miracle. Based on a playful assumption, the whole world has forgotten about the Beatles, except for Jack.
The British rock band The Beatles have long been a musical legend. For nearly a decade, the group defined the "60s" in their songs, telling an entire generation and the world about the complexities of war and peace. The Beatles have traveled through genre trends over the past few decades and built an enduring legend as an icon in the music industry. No wonder many call them "the best-selling band of all time".
The film uses Beatles songs to tell this "what if" scene in a fun musical way.
In the remote English town of Lovestaff, Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is trying to turn his singing and composing dreams into reality as his longtime friend and manager Ellie Apple Dayton (Lily James) is the biggest fan of his music. One day Jack was hit by a bus and there was a global blackout lasting 12 seconds. When Jack wakes up from the hospital, the world is erased from the Beatles history, only he remembers.
The setting is very similar to "Charlotte's Troubles".
The whole idea of the film is more of a sitcom than a feature film, and we can see just from the movie trailer just how difficult it will be for the character of Jack from the beginning to the future, and those difficulties How it will end, the cause and effect of the story is very formulaic and predictable and doesn't live up to the kind of lofty cinematic ambitions the director wanted.
While many of the Beatles' iconic songs are highlighted over the course of the film, the storyline lacks depth and substance, and even having director Boyle shape and direct the film can't rescue its formulaic nature.
In the actor roles of "Yesterday's Miracle", almost all the actors showed their acting skills in a good way, but there were not too many surprise performances.
"Yesterday's Miracle" is a fantastic and mysterious journey, belonging to the "what if" type of plot, although the director wants to introduce the classic Beatles songs to a new generation, but the film is not enough to support the legend of the Beatles, because "Yesterday" should have more possibilities.
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