Their existence has been reduced to a “a train and a room and a car and a room and a room and a room.” They are pushed and prodded by Shake and Norm, cut off from sandwiches and sandwiched at all times by screaming fans giving chase. Four working class lads (now, that’s embarrassing) from the north of England trapped in a world they created that they have no control over. There they are up on the screen: The Beatles. Yes, as much as I will gush about this movie, it’s not even my favorite Beatle film, so maybe I should curb my adenoidal glottal stop and not carry on for your benefit. Along with Let It Be, which I actually always preferred because the Beatles weren’t acting as Beatles (or wizards or being played by other actors’ voices but) being Beatles, it perfectly bookends a perfect musical career.
Motion Pictures would never be able to discount the art in rock and roll movies again. The film is consistently listed in the top 100 greatest movies ever made. But they also helped bring revolution nine to the film industry. They revolutionized music, adding chords and time signature changes and playing around with instrumentation. They were “an early clue to a new direction.” They were also “troublemakers” who missed the memo saying “the new thing” was to “care passionately and be right wing.” I dig them and all those other pimply hyperboles.” But it is more than that. I mean in my “valueless opinion,” The Beatles are “really fab. It’s not that I don’t have words to describe how much joy this film brings me, no matter how many times I watch it and I binge-Beatle constantly.
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