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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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