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...enterprise’s amateur production value.A few of the film’s scenes do succeed: The “Santa Fe” musical number is especially inspired. The cast performs the song in a crowded subway car and recruits unsuspecting commuters into their impromptu revelry. Keith Young??s spirited choreography transforms every inch of the cramped quarters into performance space—the result is a dance sequence as exhilarating as any Steve McQueen car chase or Chow Yun-Fat shoot-out.The film’s acting and singing is uniformly strong, possibly because most...
...Prairie”’s tone is usually genial and nostalgic. The strident politicking of Young??s previous outing, “Greendale,” has been replaced by a sober remembrance of things past...
...Prairie” bears little resemblance to Young??s “Doom Trilogy” of records—“On the Beach,” “Time Fades Away,” and “Tonight’s the Night,”—in which remorse and a sense of loss foreground every track. Not that “Prairie” lacks substance or depth...
...later verse warns of the darker side of creativity: “But in the end she fell down / Before she got up again,” subtly reflecting Young??s own fluctuating commercial and critical success...
...album closer, “When God Made Me,” a simple and earnest plea for tolerance in the aftermath of 9-11, is likely to split opinions. The song’s first verse is artlessly direct, and betrays Young??s leftist sympathies: “Was he thinking about my country / Or the color of my skin? / Was he thinking about my religion / And the way I worshipped him? / Did he create just me in His image / Or every living thing? / When God made...