"Love and Mercy"--Mostly Good Vibrations

Rating: 9/10 (12 July 2015)

If you remember the 1960's classic album "Pet Sounds" by Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, there is a good chance you will enjoy the movie "Love and Mercy".
In an unusual music biopic of Brian Wilson, "Love and Mercy" structures his life through two highly acclaimed actors, Paul Dano and John Cusack, playing Brian the younger and middle-aged Brian respectively. In a highly innovative flashback structure in which Paul Dano plays twenty-something Brian Wilson and John Cusack plays his fifty-something 1980's version, we see the backstory of a creative musical genius whose abusive childhood and adult life results in the destructive behavior of his middle-age. Based on Brian Wilson's biography, "Love and Mercy' tells the horrific tale of a pioneering musician and the wounds which seemed never to heal. Read the entire review at: www.unhealedwound.com