Todd Haynes, 2007
Bob Dylan is one of the cultural icons of last century. There are episodes of his life and it works that are recorded to fire in the golden book of the culture rock as his famous metamorphosis of folk singer-songwriter to electrical rocker who took for surprise his fans in the festival of Newport of 1965, or his conversion to the Christianity at the end of the 70 that led him to surprising with a series of sound álbumes gospel song and spiritual content. In any case it is a question of one of the most important artists of the history of the rock and an authentic legend that during the 60s influenced the way of thinking about million persons and played an unequivocal role in the alternative revolution of ends of this decade.
There are several documentaries that come closer Dylan's figure as famous "Don't look back" of 1967 or the recent one “not direction home” realized by Martin Scorsese in 2005, but for this first dramatization of his figure it might not have adopted a more unusual approach. Never a biopic appears to the use, there tries to offer itself rather a series of vignettes guided by different personages (some of them Dylan's embodiments but also figures inspired by his work or his tastes) that allow to come closer different aspects of his work and his personality:" Inspired by the music and many lives of Bod Dylan" it is possible to read in the credits of the beginning of the tape. And the proposal is risked first of all and he would say that difficult to assimilate for those who do not bear very in mind the career of the man. On contrary, the approach is certainly an original, offering something like collage of free pieces that once tacked allow you to have the finished perspective.
- six personages, that not six Dylans, you do not believe the publicity...-
Six principal personages guide the movie in different narrative threads that we see inserted without apparent order. It is a question of Woody (Marcus Carl Franklin), a vagabond who travels in load cars with his guitar and who is a follower of a folk singer-songwriter of who Dylan was excited follower, this personage serves to have a vision of the origin of the popular musics at the beginning of the 50, and also to represent the false biographies that Dylan was assuming (it is presented like “trick“ in the initial scenes where it presents all the personages to itself). Then we have Jack Rollins (Christian Bale) who personifies Dylan in two key phases of his life: his success as folk singer-songwriter in the first half of the 60, and his spiritual conversion at the end of the 70. It would be said that the personage who loads with major weight is Jude Quinn (Fail Blanchett), who interprets to the personage during his famous 'electrification' (in an allegorical scene where the band shoots the public with machine guns), and his tours along the England of the swinging' London of middle of the 60 that allows us to be present at his polemic declarations and clashes with the press, meetings with lights of the epoch (Beatles, Stones...), etc.
- Take electrification! -
We still have left Arthur (Ben Whishaw), a personage surrendered to a stranger examination of that we never see the authors of the questions, but that serves like articulador of the numerous famous phrases that assume to Dylan, Robbie Clark (Heath Ledger), an actor who prepares a movie on the artist and who allows to assimilate his matrimonial problems to which there suffered proper Dylan (the wife is interpreted by Charlotte Gainsborough). And finally the bravest is Billy “the child” (Richard Gere), undoubtedly the one that more is going to mess up the one who comes closer the tape of a chance way. This personage has his meaning of life due to Dylan's participation in the movie of Sam Peckimpah "Pat Garrett and Billy the kid”. Billy is walked by a rural area of last century before winks to Dylan's songs, some of them so Martians as ostriches or giraffes they walking along the midwest. In this fragment we can see winks to other personages of the movie in an authentic puzzle for deciphering.
- Christian Bale with a look that molaría enough for Terminator 5 -
Since we see different personages and aspects that they can confuse (and they will confuse) to many spectators, except whom they go with the made duties or are well expert in the career of the personage. But risked since it is the exercise (in addition to the multiple personages and stories the color and the B/N are alternated, and one experiments with narrative forms like the false documentary), it would be said that Todd Haynes leaves with his and takes to good port the proposal. For it it is provided with the big work in the performances of most of actors (the cast is certainly a depositor): Fail Blanchett was nominated to the Oscar like better supporting actress last year by this movie, and certainly it gives the asexual touch of the personage in the epoch. Haynes allows himself debatable licenses, like the "machine-gunning" of the hearing, the abstract fragment of the personage of Richard Gere who for me does not reach port too much, or the staging of the "death" of the spirit of original Dylan with an authentic burial. But in general everything ends up by having sense (I do not assure that in the first visionado) and leaves a very interesting movie to us however much the proposal one might have specified something more and not to leave it in such an abstract plane, anything that will prevent from coming to more public. So the author of wonderful "Velvet Goldmine" (one of the best approaches from the movies to the culture rock of the one that we will speak shortly) leaves to us the most interesting movie that undoubtedly is worth it.
- Billy the child little crecidito looking for giraffes and ostriches -
I have not spoken about the sound-track that of course is what was missing to finish off the movie. A sound-track that alternates some of the topics most known about the teacher with other pieces of his catalog some less frequent ones, a few times in his original capitulations and others in versions of friendly bands of the director.
Evaluation: 8/10
.
No comments:
Post a Comment