Across The Universe

Posted by jepoyzter under Movies, Music

I just finished watching “Across The Universe”.

Synopsis from IMDB:

An original musical film, Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by The Beatles that defined the time.

I haven’t heard about this movie before till a friend of mine downloaded and share it with me.

The movie is really good. I wonder why it didn’t make it into the mainstream? Hmmmm…. It was never been screened here. Should I wonder why?

Anyway what I was saying was, the overall movies is good! Creatively done. The story is so so, but the actors really give justice to their roles and their voice are really good.  One thing that out stand in this movie the most is its soundtrack. Yeah the soundtrack, lots of Beatles songs are used in this film. Though I am not really familiar with some of them but I know a few like “Hey Jude”, “Let It Be”, and “Across the Universe”.

The artistic design they used in this movie is very creative, you’ll really see lots of beautiful graphic arts and designs that I must say inspired me a lot.