Since the Beatlemania has come back again mainly due to the release of a new video game called : The Beatles :Rock Band I´d like to let you know about Across the Universe an original film based on the Beatles songbook.
This could be described as a musical love film set in the 60s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest.By looking at the above picture you may think that this film could be about a typical love story; however , it´s more than that.The love story of Lucy and Jude( named after the well known Beatles songs Hey Jude and Lucy in the sky ) is intertwined( entrelazado) with the anti-war movement and social protests of the 60s´ and the struggle(lucha) for free speech and civil rights.
Over 30 Beatles´songs are sung by the actors themselves in the film.The story moves from High schools to universities in Massachussets, Princenton and Ohio to the lower east side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots( redadas) , Vietnam and the dockyards(muelles) of Liverpool.
The film starts with a solitary dockworker man Jude(Jim Sturgess) sitting on a quiet beach front.He is singing Girl with a melancholic air looking off into the distant horizon. Later on , Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), the main female character,dances along with her boyfriend Daniel and their high school classmates, Lucy sings to Daniel " Tell me I´m the only one"...................I won´t keep on telling you more about the plot .If you like to know about how the story goes on.....Go and see it .Since it will be a bit difficult to watch it in the cinemas, as it´s a 2007 film , you can buy the DVD or hire it in special video clubs.
I highly recommend it for two reasons : Firstly, you may have fun learning some lyrics of some Beatles´ songs and secondly you may find out more about the social and political movements of the American society in the 60s. By the way, talking about the Beatlemania, in a few days we will be speaking, of course, about this worldwide famous band of the 60s from Liverpool The Beatles and the new video game The Beatles Rock Band.Don´t miss it!
This is an interesting link you may click on if you want to read the lyrics of the songs of the film Lyrics of the Across the Universe
Here you have the movie trailer:
