Celebrate Musical Genius!

Rating: 10/10 (28 November 2018)

This is the best movie I have seen this year and amongst the best ever.
It is compelling throughout with super music and convincing believable players all inspired by real events.
The show-stopping stand out performance comes from Rami Malik who deserves a clutch of awards as does the film itself and everyone associated with it.
Some professional critics and others have for what ever reason tried to be critical of this movie but once again they are totally wrong and the public ticket sales confirms the quality of the movie.
If some of the seedier aspects of the true events are not fully shown then need to remember that the central focus of this movie is the music.
Freddy Mercury was the lead singer of the band Queen and the film shows how the band and their music evolved and at the same time explains the life and demise of the bands principal artist at a time when AIDs began its' cruel epidemic.
This picture is a celebration of the music and artistry of genius musicians and showmanship and thankfully does not dwell so much on the plague of AIDs but when the movie does focus on that subject, it does so with devastating effect.
There is one scene When Freddy Mercury is leaving the AIDs clinic and a fellow suffering has a ever so brief exchange with him: that is heart-breaking.
Another scene when Freddy tell his band members:
"I've got it", and they are clueless as to what he is talking about. That sadly sums up the previous apathetic attitude of the straight world to gay issues.

A lot of the public will of been perplexed with Freddy's apparent sexual preferences and the woman in his life. The movie unravels and explains it. Because of his ethnic background and the pressures on him he needed to be straight or believe that he was; or if not then the most he could do was to claim bisexuality.
He was of course always a gay even though Freddy resisted for a lot of his life that realization.
Adding to the magical music and fine acting is a delightfully amusing but insightful script and with wonderful presentation and production I can award:

10/10.