Much of the movie revolves around the Viet­nam War, and the protests that went on during the time. All the char­ac­ters are pulled into dif­fer­ing sub-​cultures and left to their own devices, and are let to play out their lives with what they’ve gotten them­selves into. It demon­strates what people are capa­ble of when they feel the need to work for some­thing. It dis­plays people in their best and worst moments with­out much in the ways of com­pro­mise, and shows that people aren’t per­fect nor do sit­u­a­tions always work out glow­ing. It does glaze over one or two areas that prob­a­bly could have had more explain­ing, but you cannot real­ize this during the film and it prob­a­bly isn’t worth dwelling over.

I was cap­ti­vated through­out the movie, though I could say that some scenes could have been cut a tad shorter or removed simply to save time. There was little point to some scenes other then to demon­strate a char­ac­ters inner feeling(s) at that moment. In some cases this is deep and truly moving, others it just seems like they needed some­thing to help sep­a­rate scenes. Having said that, Pru­dence prob­a­bly could have been left out of the movie as she didm’t really do any­thing for it. She felt more like a song que and a side-​kick through­out the film and hence a filler character.

The music is com­pletely com­prised of songs from The Bea­t­les, but re-​sung by the char­ac­ters in the movie. It con­tained stun­ning visual effects and a solid flow. Some of the more… out­landish scenes were a little stren­u­ous on the eyes, and let me tell you that on a dig­i­tal pro­jec­tor those scenes tended to be both stun­ning and blind­ing. Don’t take that the wrong way, they were amaz­ing and orig­i­nal, but wow. If thats what acid trips look like, count me out. As the movie pro­gresses, the visual effects and ques become more obvi­ous to the watcher, and helps inte­grate the viewer into the char­ac­ters lives. Help­ing them to see what the char­ac­ters see. Mr. Kite’s musi­cal scene was … amaz­ing, ter­ri­fy­ing and utterly mind-​shattering all at once.

If you enjoy musi­cals, this is a com­plete must-​see. If you don’t like musi­cals, screw it and watch it any­ways. It’s a well directed film with impres­sive direc­tion and plays out smoothly. It’s a simple movie about love and what people are will­ing to go through for it, and the hope­less roman­tic in me glowed from watch­ing it.

Oh, and I will be pick­ing up the sound­track for this as soon as humanly possible.

8.3/10