Across the Universe

Across teh Universe is a movie directed by Julie Taymor ( The same of Frida-2002), this movie tries to characterize the 60's with its fights, dreams, wars and passions. In one side we have the Vietnan war, the racial segregation, and on the other side we have the searching for new horizons, the sexual lib, passions, a new musical scenery and some drug's travels. In this movie we can find a lot of musics (mainly Beatles' musics) creating a love story betewn two young people.
Love stories, the most part of time are trashy, but is very impressive the way the characters are contructed singing some songs, the young coupke give for this songs: life and their voices, in fact they can humanize the songs and in this way the movie makes the espectator see by the point of view of that age, it puts the viewer inside the 60's thoughts.
There are so many sceneries, fantasies, colors that the viewer can really imagine the situation how it were, and the experience of the director with teather's scnery and arts (as we saw on Frida), but on the other hand this kind of aesthetic exploration makes the scenary and others stuffs be more important than the story, the viewer's vision stays focused in the colors not in the story.
Watching this movie, it make us remiding Tim Burton's another one: Big fish, and also The wall (Alan Parker) because all of them make the audience invoke surreal and psichedelic images. And, of course, the movie Hair because of the date, the theme, the songs, the musical movie and so on.
Concluding in this movie we have some overstatements, requiring a little bit more vision of the espectator but it has also some humanity shown and some questions betwen its lines.