'Across the universe', running on empty

"Across the universe" is less a movie than an artistic experience, beautifully choreographed and sequenced to evoke the simple, mindless dreaminess of the sixties and seventies minus the pretensions at plot that might otherwise destroy the experience like grabbing a ringing bell.



The Beatles did produce some of the best music of the era and it was the music, brilliantly expressed in dance and via digital magic, that was the soul of the film.

Music as the soul? Well yes. Not very substantive, it is true. But it was the music that perhaps best sums up the era for one who lived through it. And underlying "the revolution"? Only emptiness.

Did the generation that would change the world make it a better place? Well no. The Americans pulled out of Indochina and millions died. Then after that fossil Reagan (an anathema to his flower child daughter) came to power, the U.S. economy (and original thought) rebounded and communism became dust.

The message/conclusion of the movie was "All you need is love." Now there's a theme Hollywood dusts off on occasion. Come to think of it there was something of a Hollywood plot after all. All you need is love. It feels good, feels right. And that music . . .





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