I'm Not There...

Never thought he would be. There. In the first place. Really. Bob Dylan.

The new movie by Todd Haynes, I'm Not There, is brilliantly titled. A movie on Bob Dylan's life and music, based on truths, real, imagined, exaggerated. Borrowing from the poet-troubadour's words, penned to the cheery-lament tone of his mouth organ. A movie made with with the man's blessings, himself. Counts for something!

It made me turn turn to Zimmerman and his
music after many, many years. A turn back of sorts. After detesting the pretensions and the hypocrisy and the POSE of Bob Dylan for so long. In this volteface, I heard it all nonstop and it's replaced the soundtrack of life for now. Just for the music, the words, the POETRY ('cuz who else could write 'For let us not talk falsely now/The hour is getting late'), and that Cate Blanchett seriously seems like a revelation to watch, CANNOT wait for it.