A mediocre disapontment, sorry friends.

Rating: 6/10 (2 December 2018)

This movie treid to convince me that being gay and having AIDS in the 70's was no big deal and I hate it for that.
The story was lacking and left too much unsaid. The main character and his relations went unexplored. What was the deal with his dad? Why was he so upset? What kind of emotional ties did Freddie try and mend with him in the end?
Furthermore we have the whole ordeal with his gayness and his illness. These two thing, being gay and having AIDS, were MAJOR in the 70's/ 80's and people were horrofied of both. The general public wasn't too aware of what AIDS was and for a while people actually thoght that it was airborne. Yet, we really don't get to see much stigma about it, not from the bandmembers, or his family, not from anyone. There isn't even a casual conversation where we get to see the perspective of the public. Nothing. Now, in regards to his homosexuallity it's handled a little better, we get to see some stigma and it is acknowledged that being gay is a controversial thing, but yet I feel like we see too litte. It is simply stated that "being gay is hard" like they literally just say it. For example when he comes out to his current fiance, she just says "you're going to have a hard life", they could have shown us that. Or, when they relase their Break Free music video, Freddie says that "people hate ME for it, becasue I'M the queer one" but agian, we never get to see that. We just hear it and that removes so much power from the medium of film. They're suppose to SHOW US, if all they use to further information is dialogue, I dare say it's a weak movie.

One last main thing, that is a bit more subjective, is the fact that the movie wasn't verry pretty. By the looks of it, I expected a beautifully filmed masterpice, but I felt like the imagery didn't quite cut it. There was one scene, the one in the hospital, that I truly lovet. It was a gorgeus scene and that was what I wanted the rest of the movie to be, alas the movie did not fulfill my wants. The rest of the movie was very mediocre.
Now, lastly, the only thing I can posetively say I LOVED about this movie, the muscial prefomances. Oh my goodness, it sent shivers dowm my spine every time. They were powerful and I feel like they accuratley portrayed the power of music on people and how it brings them together. How overwhelming and emotional a live musical preformance can be. Those scenes felt genuin and real. Sadly I don't know if I can 100% atribute that to the movie itself, since it essential was a recorded concert, and it's the CONCERT, the actual preformance, that creates those feelings. But I will give the movie that since, in the end, the director played with angles and showed us the audince, showed their emotions.
I expected a movie that would tug at my heartstrings because it's the story of a man with a tragic life, but it simply left me feeling disapointed and unsatisfied. But hey, at least they didn't use narration :)
(NOTE: Due to the hype and high ratings, I expected more from this movie. Had I not heard about it, or seen any ratings, I might have taken it for something else and not been so harsh. But I also feel like a movie with 8,1 on IMDB and an audience score of 91% on rotten tomatoes should deliver more than this.)