Mr. Dylan indeed became famous in the beginning only, also he had direction for a home too, despite being ‘own’ aka himself; unlike Darwin who didn’t publish initially, or Emily Dickinson, or Vincent Gogh, or many others; thus, if the title would’ve been Things Have Changed w.r.t. to the change he wanted to bring into the Folk carnival, wouldn’t that be justified then! Just a dilemma! BTW, I missed, Things Have Changed!
Now, this is a video track playlist of Mr. Dylan! Thus, you must’ve an adapted taste for folk, country; until, the rock part comes in the end, and further, if you’re a kind of a person who listens, not to various artists, or live radio, or, mix hits; but, the entire of playlist of one artist only, then this would captivate you, otherwise, you would find it less of a story about an artist, and more of a single artist playlist, with several missing dots in the story itself. As lot of things the flick has missed. The entire personal life, struggles (if any), past, present, history is missing; whilst the movie jumps to the present times of Oscar & Nobel in the epilogue after the band changing the theme of the carnival in the end; means skipping that much of the part of true story, and restricting it to few years maybe, makes less of a movie, and more of a selective playlist; again, nothing wrong in that too; but in today’s age where many prefer listening to different tracks rather of any single artist, thus, how many would enjoy it as a true story, where story is not stitched together, except the playlist?
Timothee Chalamet, I’ve no words for him. Means, how can an actor, with such a versatile phenomenal performances’, emerged in the present era. Not an easy thing! Means, you put this artist into any role, and he is just taking that to another level! This, as a viewer I’m writing! Sometimes I wonder, at such young age, a person has played so many challenging roles, of every domain; then what else is left to achieve, except an Oscar, which would also come one or the other day!
Now you would give me an example of many founders, entrepreneurs‘, promoters’, politicians, and hedge fund managers’, who also achieved things at young age; but again, we’re here talking about exceptional performances in kaleidoscopic roles; which you can only get in the field of media or literature; and no where else. Because, at other places, what you’re doing is merely 2+2=4 all your life. And further, that’s why I don’t even consider non-fiction/reference books’ as literature! And this is the reason why Mr. Dylan won the NOBEL in Literature because of his versatile fiction writing. And that’s why, what Timothee at such young age accomplished, others couldn’t. This is not what I’m contradicting myself, wherein I wrote, Entertainment industry shouldn’t become inspiration for the political movements! Of course, they shouldn’t! But, kaleidoscopic versatility, can only be achieved vide, impeccable fiction, heart thumping adventure, and, filtered greatest artistic feature! No more No less!
All said and done. A good weekend watch! 😊
© Pranav Chaturvedi