Ray, by Taylor Hackford (2004)
Ray, by Taylor Hackford (2004)
Let's begin a new year of reviews (let's hope).
My ignorance in the field of music (combined with a little indifference) didn't make me suspect that that nice and smiling gentleman who appeared in so many shows could be the protagonist of such an intense life.
Let's put it in this way: there are genial people and there are excessive people, and Ray Charles was a good combination of the two. The movie draws in a forceful way his determined character, follows with dynamism and breadth the evolution of his music, shows his quite complicated private life, links his adult life to his life as a child and does not gloss over his negative sides.
As a biography, therefore, it is extremely well done, IMHO.
This said, the Ray Charles character has a certain stiffness; the thing I thought is that a musician identifies so much his own life with music that there is no space left for other forms of expressions of himself; the stiffness could be another way in which the movie is faithful to the life. What is certain is that I did not experience any feeling of identification with the story or the feelings in the movie; but I don't know what this may mean: coldness of the movie or just too much distance between me and what is represented.
In synthesis, and I repeat myself, a beautiful biographic movie.
JTS
Let's begin a new year of reviews (let's hope).
My ignorance in the field of music (combined with a little indifference) didn't make me suspect that that nice and smiling gentleman who appeared in so many shows could be the protagonist of such an intense life.
Let's put it in this way: there are genial people and there are excessive people, and Ray Charles was a good combination of the two. The movie draws in a forceful way his determined character, follows with dynamism and breadth the evolution of his music, shows his quite complicated private life, links his adult life to his life as a child and does not gloss over his negative sides.
As a biography, therefore, it is extremely well done, IMHO.
This said, the Ray Charles character has a certain stiffness; the thing I thought is that a musician identifies so much his own life with music that there is no space left for other forms of expressions of himself; the stiffness could be another way in which the movie is faithful to the life. What is certain is that I did not experience any feeling of identification with the story or the feelings in the movie; but I don't know what this may mean: coldness of the movie or just too much distance between me and what is represented.
In synthesis, and I repeat myself, a beautiful biographic movie.
JTS
posted by JTS at
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
4 Comments:
poo... there is lots of space in ones life to express oneself...take Bethoveen for example.. he was VERY compassionate about his life and married twice.. had 20 somthing children and was very depressed most of the time. lol haha. He expressed himself (i think...)
~your annoying little sister~
aka-you'll never know unless for some odd reason i give out my identity.. :)
By
Anonymous, at 12 January, 2005 21:48
Uh, whose sister are you? Ha ha ha.
By
Mike Beversluis, at 13 January, 2005 10:36
The musician with 20 children was Bach.
By
JTS, at 13 January, 2005 10:51
Bethoveen?
Was she related to Beethoven?
By
Anonymous, at 13 January, 2005 11:59
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