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...you’re playing me,” Kevin Spacey, himself playing Bobby Darin, says to a child actor portraying a younger Bobby early on in Beyond...
...begins this biopic, which Spacey wrote, directed and starred in—a strange tale of legendary singer and entertainer Bobby Darin making a movie of his own life, retelling and narrating along...
...movie-in-a-movie get confusing very quickly. While an interesting paradigm, it ends up seeming like a cheap trick to avoid the obvious question—why is a man in his forties never known for his attractiveness playing a twenty-something heartthrob? After a reporter asks Darin whether he isn’t too old to play himself as a younger man, Darin’s brother in law responds by asking, “How can you be too old to play yourself...
...implication from this and the other scene is obvious: Spacey is Darin, Spacey knows him better than anyone else ever has. And while his acting is usually good, his singing phenomenal and his respect for Darin obvious, there is something essential lacking in this film...
...word, it is reality. Fantasy sequences abound in Beyond the Sea: a smiling Darin foregrounds dancing in the streets; a trip to Darin’s mother’s funeral after which he takes off his mourning suit, puts on a bow tie and exits out of the back of the church onto a stage; the child actor’s watch slows down as Darin faces the physical consequences of a childhood illness...