Perhaps the most important word in YESTERDAY's script is . . .

Rating: 10/10 (11 July 2019)

. . . "Shakespeare." Though this flick explicitly asks, "What if the Beatles, Coca-Cola, cigarettes, and Harry Potter NEVER happened?" its implicit primary query must be stated as "What if the Bard was never born?" Think about it. If the Stalwart on Avon never existed (and was unknown to EVERYBODY except YOU!), then if you said "The Truth must out," or pledged "My kingdom for a horse!" other people would raise their eyebrows. If you advised your college-bound kids, "To thine own selves be True" they might laugh in your face. When you were giving your bottle of Spray and Wash a workout at your local laundromat and muttered "Out, out, Dark Spot!" nobody would credit you with a smidgen of erudition. If you told someone "All the World's a stage," they might retort "So break a leg!" If you persisted in prepping for an audition while walking through a cornfield, declaiming "Friends, chums, country bums: Lend me your ears!" Vincent might give you BOTH of his! Upon noting, "Money is the root of all Evil," any Pachyderm within earshot might stick out their hands. Or if these miscreants heard you lament, "What a spider's web we weave, when first we practice to deceive," Designated Liar "Sirrah Huckleberry" could retort "Practice makes perfect." This would all be enough to make you long for YESTERDAY.