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To tell the truth, the first half of the movie was unremarkable. I thought it was an ordinary literary and refreshing movie, plus the male lead... emmmm did not look good and almost gave up halfway.
However, the following plot is surprising: Jack sang the Beatles' Yesterday in front of his friends, which was quite amazing. Everyone was fascinated by his talent and melody. And Jack also discovered an incomprehensible magical truth: The Beatles do not exist in this world? !
Therefore, the agent took a fancy to his song and asked to collaborate on the album. The music festival invited him to perform on stage. Even Huang boss Ed Sheeran personally came to the door and invited him to be the warm-up singer of his concert. The peak of his life is beckoning him in the future.
Jack was excited and panicked. Driven by various forces, he used his memory to sing the Beatles’ classic songs one by one, recorded albums, appeared on shows, rushed to announcements, and held concerts, which instantly became popular. The shots were switched back and forth in Moscow, England, Los Angeles, and the open-air rooftops. He walked through the distance the Beatles walked back then. Fans all over the world are crazy for him.
The moment the classic melody of "Hey Jude" sounded, everyone was in joy. The feeling of excitement is really that the people on the screen are crazy for joy, and the people outside the screen are moved to the point of tears. However, how to put it, the film conveys a contradiction at this time: You think Jack is a liar, for the sake of his future and the so-called show of talent, stealing the stunning works of the rock group, hypocritical and shameful. But looking back, if there were really no Beatles in the world, and if no one had ever listened to their music, what would the world be like? And Jack presents the Beatles’ works to the world by virtue of his memory. Is it a merit or a demerit?
When the agents asked to turn Hey Jude into Hey Dude and Let It Be into Leave It Be, Jack's psychology was full of contradictions and struggles.
He went to the Rose Garden, to Abby Street, to find the footprints of the Beatles, and found nothing. During this period, his lonely figure also conveyed an indescribable loneliness.
If one day, a certain iconic classic in the world suddenly disappears, and you alone remember these, will you find a way to present it and let it continue to spread in the world?
To be or not to be. This is a question worth thinking about.
In the sublimation part of the film, two other people who remember the Beatles find Jack and say to him: "We want to thank you. We miss the Beatles, but we can't sing, and you sing it." Suddenly there were tears when I saw this.
"A world without the Beatles is an extremely bad world." This sentence is the finishing touch to the whole film's tribute to the Beatles.
What's even more incredible is that these two men also brought another news to Jack : John Lennon is still alive. Jack was stunned again!
After seeing the elderly John, Jack discovered that he had lived peacefully to 78 years old, guarding a large secluded house by the sea, and really living the life he had always dreamed of: day after day doing his favorite job, sailing. Traveling the world, fighting for my own beliefs and winning, I found a beloved woman, and lived a happy life together.
After so many years, John Lennon is still a regret that cannot be erased in people's hearts. And the appearance of this scene is so beautiful and so reassuring. This can be regarded as the director's perfect dream for all Beatles fans.
Maybe there is a so-called parallel universe in the world, in another world: The Beatles did not disband, people are still crazy about him, John Lennon spent a long life happily and contentedly, the wizarding world of Harry Potter Open to everyone... This typical British imagination with salute and consolation suddenly raised the rating of this film in my mind.
At the end of the story, the hero decided to tell the world the truth.
He invited Boss Huang to warm up his concert (emmmm felt sorry for Boss Huang for three seconds here), said the actual creator of the song on the stage, and confessed to his childhood sweetheart girlfriend. After that, he bid farewell to the shining stage and returned to the family. Became a music teacher, has a double harvest in love career, and leads a magnanimous and happy life.
This ending is also an expression of honesty and face to heart. We can't imagine that the people or things that we are so familiar with suddenly disappear in the world we are accustomed to. You can't experience the kind of thing you love so much, suddenly there is no trace.
Zhang Ailing said: "A person will die three times in his life. The first time is brain death, which means that the body is dead; the second time is a funeral, which means death in society; the third time is forgotten. There is no one in this world. I think of you".
It sounds sad, but it is a stark reality.
In Jack's world, people don't know the Beatles, but they are still crazy about his songs. Suddenly I felt that the creation of classics does not necessarily have to be exclusive to a specific era or a specific group of people. Works that directly hit the soul can exist in the living world in any form.
The Beatles’ music has long been integrated into the souls of generations of musicians. In the minds, souls, and scores of countless new music creators, it turns into new music cells, grows into new notes, and lingers in people’s ears. The side has a long history.
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