Good, but something was missing

Rating: 8/10 (4 May 2008)

Only The Beatles's music could be capable of cause a musical odyssey like this. If Yellow Submarine and A Hard Day's Night were an adventure that led to reflection and especially the delight of every song, Julie Taymor gives with this film a universal, romantic, historic, epic and unique magnitude to many of the Beatles's hits.
All the movie it's a journey, an adventure. Jude is looking for his father, his identity, his freedom and at the end for Lucy, she instead tries to lived, love, fight for what she believes, an find Jude at the building's upper. All reduces in the look for love, because if all you need is love it is good to go Across the universe to find it. And so the ideas makes sense, value, a universal weight where everyone are one, like Dr Robert said, and The Beatles before: I am he as you are he and we are he all together.
But even after all the film's beauty, all the songs, the choreographs, the ideologies and the rhythmic edition agreement to the era's portrait both historically and culturally, something was missing. After all still a vacuum that made us feel something was missing, maybe a Lucy in the sky with diamonds more justified or an endless list of songs that were omitted by a lack of time. We were also waiting to know more about Prudence, Sadie, Jojo, more about their lives, their philosophy.
Even with all this the real magic about Across the universe isn't overshadowed, these minimal details that were missing or that made fail the intentions of what was trying to show, all they are forgotten behind the beauty of their images and with every note and verse of songs. And is worth to stay mounted on the dream of love.