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"A Complete Unknown" – thoughts? I've anecdotally noticed that my parents' generation is very effusive. I'm more meh on it. Acting was great, but felt like a long series of cameos rather than compelling characters / story. I'd go so far as to say I find Dylan a little *less* interesting than beforehand.
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i thought it was a masterpiece of story and acting it was telling a specific story and thus less of a traditional "biopic" also found it wonderfully romantic
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I found it difficult to connect with this Dylan’s motivations — eg: Why did he write music? Why did he love Sylive/Joan? I couldn’t easily answer these core elements — somehow never hooked on for me. What did you experience this story being about?
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for me, this was part of the point, eg, the title of the film was "a complete unknown, which has at one level always been the enigma about him - he was always elusive at best, at unknown at worst, and in his own book Chronicles he begins to address this - by saying he has no idea how he created his art thus, you have a young man, pursuing something, and somehow locking into a spirit of creative pursuit where he can (somehow) express himself in the way he cannot with his loves. The lyrics, in a way, answer all the questions. and, as the closing credit remind us, the only songwriter ever to win a nobel prize .......
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My favorite part of the film was the way that the line “A Complete Unknown” came at that climax of his transition at the end. What I find interesting about this is the way it raises the question of how hated/misunderstood as an artist is a form of being “unknown”, and there’s a way in which this state in general was especially productive for Dylan as an artist. Now that im articulating it this way, the plot is feeling more compelling. For some reason this didn’t land for me through the story itself. (Could be a Me Problem) Thanks for the thoughts. Also cc @0xen
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