Sometimes change is Good

Rating: 9/10 (9 October 2015)

This is now the best movie made. The Coens have always come out with great movies but not in such a time of revelations. This is just before the Beatles came in and the the British invasion of music happened. I remember because a little while after in a new magazine called National Lampoon there was a take off on it called "The Adventures of Zimmerman" and Bob Dylan saves America from the British invasion of Stones and Kinks and other British rock and roll, in the form of a comic book. Dylan is heard right at the end of the movie when Llewyn Davis gets punched out. The movie is taken from the life of Dave Von Ronk,in the book "The Mayor of MacDougal Street". I read the book and he's not as hard edged as his depiction in the movie. I'm glad he he was friends with Dylan. The actual pop music at the time sucked then, just like it does today. But it was about to change. And so Dave Von Ronk got to experience the folk revival and be friends with one of the creative geniuses of that time. That's not too shabby. These are and have been scary times because of phony and obviously bad politicians. Maybe a real democrat will finally get in the White house and some great music will come back. But probably we'll just get fooled again.