I had a weirdly mixed reaction to INT, though I'll admit, my incredibly high hopes ("Todd Haynes plus Bob Dylan? This shall be the greatest movie of all time!") may have contributed. Much of the time I felt like it was basically conventional wisdom, albeit beautifully presented conventional wisdom (though I did appreciate how it gave much more weight to Dylan's marriage than "No Direction Home").
But given some time since viewing, the "beautifully portrayed" part is winning out---the image of Dylan as a bright child playing in a 1963 living room to suburbanites with their hands in their laps, among many, is perfect. And I love the Richard Gere sections too, not least because of my immense soft spot for 70s freakout Westerns (when, oh when shall we get a DVD of The Last Movie?). Definitely one that I'll rewatch some time soon.
I do wonder if it makes any sense at all to non-Dylan fans---the motorcycle crash, in particular, is wonderfully elliptical if you know about it, but unintelligible if you don't---but hell, maybe that's not such a bad thing. -D McK
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Date: 2008-09-09 08:00 pm (UTC)From: (Anonymous)But given some time since viewing, the "beautifully portrayed" part is winning out---the image of Dylan as a bright child playing in a 1963 living room to suburbanites with their hands in their laps, among many, is perfect. And I love the Richard Gere sections too, not least because of my immense soft spot for 70s freakout Westerns (when, oh when shall we get a DVD of The Last Movie?). Definitely one that I'll rewatch some time soon.
I do wonder if it makes any sense at all to non-Dylan fans---the motorcycle crash, in particular, is wonderfully elliptical if you know about it, but unintelligible if you don't---but hell, maybe that's not such a bad thing.
-D McK