Take a Ride on the Yellow Brick Road

Rating: 9/10 (4 June 2019)

"You gotta kill the person you were born to be in order to become the person you wanna be." This film is a shining, shimmering journey of a man who becomes a legend and who slowly reclaims his humanity. Elton John is a god, and Reginald Dwight, the person he was born to be, a mere human of relative insignificance. Taron Edgerton is Elton John in this movie, completely, and through him we experience Elton in his man, myth, and legend forms - and how he attempts to reconcile all versions of himself in order to save himself. Edgerton's take seems to ask "What comes after you kill the person you were born to be?" I believe that Rocketman not only delivers, but also answers this timeless question.