Realistic

Rating: 7/10 (8 September 2001)

Spoiler!!!! I found this movie realistic. I know the critics will hate this. When I was a teenager, the media and boomers hated heavy metal; it did not reflect the Beatles culture of the past. In fact it destroyed it, like what Rap did to metal. I grew up in the 80's and wondered what it would of been like to live that Rock Star dream, of over excess. This film is great as a almost documentary on the life. This film shows how much fun fame, excess, and the continual high is, but shows the realities of excess, like too much water for a plant one starts to rot, and burns out. It would be fun to rock on 15 000 fans, and live with the adulation of millions, but it has a cost. The cost of excess on personal relationships, on one's values, what one is really expected to do in order to fit it. The pecking order of the band, and what the members really want. The lead character finds out the old lead singer is gay, and lived a quiet life, not this heterosexual full steam, party and die image. In the end, the Roadie told of his chance at normality, and how he gave up a wife and kids for these demands. Chris(Izzy) chose to live normality, instead of being with some stripper who wanted her turn on the ride before she had to go to work. As in all scenes, we see that the fad of metal die and a more wimpy grunge era begin. Instead of fading away with it, he choose to be with the one he loves.