An intelligent, funny movie

Rating: 10/10 (28 November 2007)

It wasn't straight forward. It reminded me of I Shot Andy Warhol". It had some of the same scene shots as "Don't Look Back" (a Dylan movie from '65) and used some very grand shots, people dressed up in costume way over the top, very much like a Fellini movie ( I think on purpose, he mentions Fellini in one song). A lot of the movie was deliberate in drawing from Dylan's own songs which seemed to drive the narrative. It gives the audience a lot of credit to be able to pick these things out. It was funny in parts without explaining why. But it did leave some people lost - which I overheard with conversations coming out of the theater. For example, I don't know how many people got that Dylan and his band pulled out machine guns on stage and shot at the crowd while they were showing the scene of Dylan plugging in his electric guitar...and the motorcycle crash he had in 68. They breezed through that in a funny way. A far off shot of a bike starting up, driving across the screen left to right, and a cheesy sound effect of a crash. Also, quickly did a shot with "A Hard Day's Night" when the Beatles run into the movie as he is filming this one. Very funny.