12/24/2023 0 Comments Los lonely boys road to nowhere![]() ![]() My only niggle is the fey depiction of a 15 year old cherubic sissy styled Paul McCartney. But be prepared to let it inform you rather than you demand 'a Beatles movie'. I went with it all and I suggest you do too. The two sisters and their unraveling personal issues from their fraught past made excellent drama. I found every part of this film compelling and thought Johnson great casting for young Lennon. So perhaps we in Oz are better more willing to applaud NOWHERE BOY on this basis. Also Eric Bana's 2008 film with Kobi Smit McPhee called ROMULUS MY FATHER is almost a flip-side between a Dad trying to save his son from an unstable mother and her lovers. Interesting for Australian cinema goers is that we are fortunate to have had two award winning films previously about similar family backgrounds: CAREFUL HE MIGHT HEAR YOU from 1983 written as a memoir by Sumner Locke Elliott about his life at 6 years old being bounced between two warring aunts and an absent father is almost identical family (flashbacks) background to NOWHERE BOY. Aaron Johnson is possibly too handsome for John and is photographed to boost his genuine beauty the photography and the direction are terrific. This is a great film, the art direction and set design allow the viewer to feel as though they are there in those rooms on those days. The tug of love between two brittle sisters and the increasingly shocked and troubled Lennon let us glimpse the deep ruptures in his romantic psyche that saw his scorching opinions and acidic wit build. They play a style of music they call 'Texican Rock n Roll,' combining elements of rock and roll, Texas blues, brown eyed soul, country, and Tejano. It just these key emotional Lennon family earthquakes that is the story of this film. Los Lonely Boys is an American Chicano rock power trio from San Angelo, Texas. What we do have however is a superb production set in the mid 1950s as rock n roll grabbed teens and John Lennon (aged 15) realized some emotional hard truths about his family and himself. So whining about the film not being about John Lennon at 25 and not being about The Beatles seems as though someone did not pay attention to the film's advertising information. If a person reads the ads and sees the trailer: it clearly says JOHN LENNON AT 15. I am old enough to remember the Beatles in their climb to fame, but this film is not about that. I suggest you read the comment by someone called Phantom Fan who sums up a lot of the story and emotional content quite well in my opinion. Upon reading other comments, this film clearly polarizes viewers.
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