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...together in New York City and manage to get involved in or affected by most of the decade's Big Movements: student unrest, race riots, Vietnam War resistance, political assassinations, the Black Panthers, bisexual experimentation, psychedelic drugs. Except for Laugh-In and the Mets' World Series victory - oh, and Dylan - it's pretty much all here...
...Someone who looks a lot like the mid-'60s Bob Dylan - except that he's called Jude Quinn and is played by Cate Blanchett - is lounging in a London hotel room, reading what he thinks are exaggerated news reports of his behavior. "God," he mutters, "I'm glad...
...There, they're not him: the six actors who impersonate some aspect of Dylan. The young, Minnesota Bob is played by a charming black kid, Marcus Carl Franklin, who gives every indication of being a blues-guitar prodigy. A 19-year-old Dylan, spouting aphorisms at a court hearing, is London stage actor Ben Whishaw. Blanchett plays prime-time Bob, the electrified folk-rock star who's getting annoyed by fame. The '70s, counterfeit-cowboy Dylan is Richard Gere. The movie leaps further into fancy by inventing Jake Rollins (Christian Bale), the Dylan character in a Hollywoodish '60s biopic called...
...This exhilarating experiment addresses the question at the root of any biography: Can anything authoritative be said about any person? And a deeper question of identity: Who the heck are we? Dylan, like anyone, may be largely unknown to himself, let alone to those who have listened to him, or followed his career, or written about his life. The movie begins by rendering this opacity graphically, as the letters of its title appear on the screen: "I'm he"... "I'm her" ... "I'm here" ... "I'm not here" ... "I'm not there." (You could also use these letters...
...surrealist). Two years ago, in Palindromes, Todd Solondz had the lead character, a 12-year-old girl, played by eight actors (including a boy and two adults). Haynes' use makes the most sense, at least the kind of sense a filmmaker can pitch at a backers' meeting, since Dylan did have many lives, all of his own creation...