Great, this piqued my interest in the Beatles~

Spencer 2022-03-22 09:01:47

Overall evaluation: 8.0 (a hodgepodge of familiar routines, but a good match)

I know, this kind of setting has appeared before, (although I only know one Charlotte annoyance...). But, you can't watch this movie with this kind of mentality. After all, their expressions and contents are different. What's more, in this movie, our protagonist Jack sang The Beatles. Really, after watching this movie, I found that from the beginning of yesterday, I seemed to be obsessed with the Beatles again. .


Then I will write down the points that made a deep impression on me one by one.

1. At the very beginning, the protagonist accidentally discovers that there are no Beatles in this world, and after this fact, begins to "compose" Beatles songs. Because, at that time, my short-sighted first thought was to cover the Beatles songs and make a lot of money. I didn't even think about how to deal with questions like, where did these "creations" of mine come from. So, at the beginning of the film, Jack was madly recalling the names and lyrics of the Beatles songs, and then he started to create the Beatles songs one after another. The quick editing of this section made me very excited and very able to drive my emotions.

2. Remember that scene when Jack released his first album? There are three big screens erected in front of Jack. It is playing on the people's, or the social reaction, after the release of the album (of course, they are all positive). Although I know that this scene, this similar idea, appeared in Wreck-It Ralph 2 (which was also a good movie), but that doesn't affect the way it brought me back when it appeared in a live-action movie of surprise and shock.

3. Enleanor Rigby, yes, when Jack started, he always wanted to "write", but the lyrics were the one song that I forgot. There is such a paragraph, when Jack is desperately recalling the lyrics, the screen shows the content of the lyrics that Jack is recalling. So, when Jack sings the wrong lyrics, the picture is correspondingly hilarious. This passage, great, expresses to me, in a more joyous form, the predicament of the lyrics that Jack can't think of.

//Now that the song is out of the way, it's time to mention his move to Liverpool. Because, in my opinion, following what the movie wants to express, it should be that when Jack really can't think of Enleanor's lyrics, he intends to go to the scene to experience it.

//emm, if I want to say it, I know that the performance of this paragraph is a bit of a collision with the video creativity of YouTube's music genius Rudy's lonely boy Elbert (should it be this name? Anyway, it can be found on station b)...

4. The special effects subtitles interacting with the scene appeared a lot in the Liverpool section.

5. The appearance of Boss Huang, this is really a bit amazing. I was smitten by him.

//Of course, to a certain extent, this also shortens the distance between the movie world and the real world.

6. Jack and Elle in Liverpool, and the love clip at the end of the film, well, this dog food, I ate it.


Emm, for this movie, apart from the romance scene, I mainly want to talk about Jack's "carrying" of the Beatles songs, which is the main event of the whole movie.

Yes, Jack was carrying the Beatles songs, and at first was deeply engrossed in the glory and wealth that his carrying brought him. But, in fact, we can see his entanglement. He has been thinking about whether to keep going. He had wanted to talk to Elle about it, but was interrupted by a phone call. After that, it felt more like Jack was being pushed towards the end of his transport path. As for what is the driving force, what is the transport path, we, or rather, I don't know yet. However, in the process of being promoted, Jack was afraid because of his own transportation (afraid that the Beatles would come to his door, which can be reflected in the dream of attending the Fat Lun Show), and also felt panic because of his transportation, (Can't remember the lyrics, Enleanor's song, and he can't think of the inspiration for those)... Of course, it's definitely more than the above, but due to my shallow knowledge, I can only express these two in words.

In addition to simple handling, in fact, we may be able to see that Jack respects these songs by the Beatles. He doesn't want to rely on vague memory, and then fill in some lyrics, perfunctory, and then become famous, (although the lyrics of Enleanor's song are still wrong...), he wants to strive to keep those songs as they were, Re-presented in this world, (you can see Jack's opinion on the release of the first album, and want to keep Hey Jude, as a result, the gold master's father also said Hey Dude is good...). That is to say, in his heart, there is a little bit of wanting to simply share the Beatles songs, not to make money. This also sets the stage, Jack's last move.

In the end, what touched me the most was the two grandparents who still remember the Beatles. The two of them said a world without the Beatles was a dark place, (something like that), and, thank you Jack for bringing the Beatles back to the world. Seeing no, this is the real star chasing. What they are chasing and advocating are the works made by the Beatles, their songs. Instead of saying, I want to chase stars, I chase this star, no matter how rubbish his work is, I will blow it into the sky, the higher the better. In the world of movies, although the Beatles "don't exist" anymore, I'm glad that their works are still alive in this world. This feeling, this "star chasing" attitude, touched me the most! ! !


PS: Besides, there are a lot of Beatles-related Easter eggs in this movie, which are included in Gao Zan’s answer, so I don’t bother to “carry” them. After reading that movie review, I thought, this is a love letter to the Beatles and Beatles fans...

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Yesterday quotes

  • Rocky: Home, sweet home.

    Jack Malik: Rocky, you're not from Liverpool, mate.

    Rocky: Nope. Never been here before.

  • Ellie Appleton: Oh, my God, you just - you touched my bottom. You've never done that before.

    Jack Malik: Well, I imagine we're gonna have to do a lot of things we've never done before.