A musical biopic with poetic beauty

Arnulfo 2022-03-21 09:02:19

For the young and promising originator of country music, there are many forms in which emotions and opinions can be expressed, and music is the most direct. Haynes's 5-in-1 approach shows his versatility, matching Bob's own eclectic versatility. Life does not need to be explained, art expresses directly, and a thousand listeners have a thousand ideas. In the same film, 5 different age groups, different castings, and multi-faceted perceptual interpretations add an unexpected joy to the biopic itself. The arbitrary switching and shuttle between eras and scenes is also quite poetic.

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I'm Not There quotes

  • Arthur: Silence, experience shows, is what terrifies people most.

  • Woody Guthrie: [the jump cut into this scene occurs after Hobo Joe or Hobo Moe has, apparently, asked the 11-year-old African American boy who call himself Woody Guthrie where he's from] Well, Missouri, originally. A little town called Riddle.

    Hobo Joe: [the rest of this dialogue is an almost exact paraphrase of dialogue from the 1957 film, A Face in the Crowd] Uh, is there really a town called Riddle?

    Woody Guthrie: Well, tell you the flat truth, it's just a sort of a whatchamacallit, a...

    Hobo Joe: ...A composite.

    Woody Guthrie: Compost heap's more like it.