I just watched Across the Universe again tonight... [View All]

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It's really an interesting movie. The way the songs are integrated into the narrative is almost seamless, like it was the background music come to the front for a moment and then fade back. I admit a couple of the songs were a little heavy handed and the Eddie Izard and Bono clips could have been taken completely out of the movie and it would have been just fine by me...

Let it Be sung at first by a young black child when Detroit is erupting into a full blown race riot and ends with a church choir singing the final at the funeral of that very same boy is perhaps one of the best heart string tug I have had in many years...

Joe Crocker's Come Together is really inspired.

I Want You (She's So Heavy) is the music behind a bizarre GI Joesgue induction into the Army for Max, one of the main characters. In the end, when they are singing She's So Heavy, the raw recruits are slogging through a swamp carrying the Statue of Liberty with them.

Good stuff.