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There are a lot of us who probably wish life was more of a trip. Less like the one you take to your next interview or conference but more like the one where the sky swirls above your head. Tonight I saw “Across the Universe.” It was good. It could have been a bit more polished but totally worth a big thumbs up in my book. There you go, review done.
It might make some of you go crazy, but I wouldn’t mind a bit of my life to be cartoonized, exaggerated, and stretched. This is because it feels this way everyday anyway, so it would be nice to know it’s normal.
Our life and the each characters’ lives in the movie seems to have many present-day parallels. The continuous rhythm of war, fighting, love, confusion, and passion ring as strong as the Beatles songs used in the movie. “Across the Universe” does a great job of exhibiting the tug of war between life, reality, life, and more reality. To learn that life is not only an individual experience but one that is shared with others.
So I need to ask you…do we settle? When does the fight that we each feel for freedom end?
Since school have you crossed the universe or stayed closer to your own shores? In short, since then, what have you fallen for? Interpret how you like.
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October 18th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
I felt like I most identified with Jude in the movie. He inspired me to think on a different plane as everyone else. In the movie while everyone was antiwar, loving war, or some in limbo, Jude made art. He said. “it doesn’t matter” I don’t know if I would call that settling just seeing things in a different way. His way of expressing the war was to remain silent and he stood by it.
Now, if we could just do that in everyday life. If we come across a problem, head toward the stereo and zone out and act as if nothing is wrong and still not have mental retardation issues.
After reading the above paragraphs, i am not sure what this answers. I loved the film though and I want to be like Joni Mitchell!