Best opening 45 mins in a long time

Rating: 8/10 (4 March 2019)

A lopsided movie. The first part was truly exhilerating, the chemistry crackled and some scenes stand up against any movie. The scene including the journey and then first performance was incredible, it reminded me a lot of the Goodfellas tracking scene, great camera work but also symbolic in terms of character.
The rest of the film was kinda off key. It was never clear that everyone felt Ally was losing her soul (which is what i felt) and it was also not clear what journey jackson was on. His hearing, his relationship and addictions were kinda jumbled.. i felt the award ceremony scene was also overdone.
I like bitter endings in movies but this one jarred especially. I was confused to what the message is. Is Jackson on some type of noble suicide which quite frankly is nonsense. The suicide should have been either removed or driven by addiction not some type of stepping aside message.
We were robbed of a redemptive crescendo for the relationship (how hood would that have been?) Instead we had what i assume was an artisitc redemption for Ally right at the end. I felt this was kinda had no build up and was just dropped in.
Great movie but really frustrating.......