Pretentious nonsense

Rating: 3/10 (23 January 2009)

I found this movie to be so much pretentious nonsense. The director is just trying to be too clever and all this movie proves is that some people such as artistes and sports men and women are best appreciated doing what they do rather than what they say or what they write. The director has tried to capture Dylan through the opaque utterances he made in his refusal to be categorised but what we are presented with is dialogue that is far too clever and gnomic for its own good. Yes, the heckler in England did indeed shout "Judas!" as a criticism of Dylan going electric, but when Dylan replies "I don't believe you!", what on earth does that mean? No, best to appreciate Dylan through his music than through this pseudo-art-house movie.