Tharmas
Veteran Member
The missus and I took our son to see "A Complete Unknown" today (the Dylan movie). We all rated it highly. It's hard for me to guess what a younger person who had no life experience with the Sixties would think of it, but the recreation of "the scene" was really good. A tremendous amount of (largely successful) effort was made to reproduce the voices and sounds of the era. The characterizations were good. It was not a whitewashing or a hagiography. Dylan was shown to be "kind of an asshole" as the Joan Baez character tells him. He is shown to be very conflicted about his success and his fame. My son's only complaint, which I shared, is that most of the songs were cut off after one verse. We wanted more music, but I guess that would make it a concert movie, which it was not supposed to be. Still, we heard the first verse of "Like a Rolling Stone" like seven times, but never any follow-through.
My rating would be 4.5 out of 5, but I'm a Boomer who grew up on that music.
My rating would be 4.5 out of 5, but I'm a Boomer who grew up on that music.