Movie: I am not there

Starring: Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw

Director: Todd Haynes

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The whole movie goes without even once mentioning the name " Bob Dylan". It's not even needed with Dylan music invading our minds and hearts. The larger-than-life figure Bob Dylan couldn't be played with one character, so Haynes got six people to play the role of the legend. The movie is a feast to the eyes and the ears. It crosses all borders of age (the old Gere), race (Marcus Carl Franklin as the young Dylan) and gender (Cate Balchett is simply miraculous and gives an extension to acting!)u00a0

The life of Dylan is segregated into six different stages played by six different characters and it wouldn't have got more magical. The young Dylan played by Marcus is a young vagabond black boy, whose name is Woody (a homage to Woody Gutherie). Then there is Ben Whishaw, donned as Aurthur, is a tribute to Dylan's admiration for the French poet Aurthur Rimbaud.

The intense Christian Bale is seen in two sides of a man, the prophet of folk music Jack Rollins and later as John Pasto after he converts into Christianism. Heath Ledger plays the role of Robbie, who is an actor and who plays Dylan onscreen, has a failed marriage with painter Claire and mirrors Dylan's marriage and divorce to sarah Lownds. And the last segment is Billy played by Richard Gere, not just the outlaw Dylan played in Sam Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" or the Dylan who went into exile in Woodstock, New York, after his 1966 motorcycle crash.

But the winner is Cate Blanchett as the troubled Dylan in his early days. Playing the skinny, androgynous Dylan in his electric years u2014 when his hair stood on, she is mesmerising. The mocking, doping Dylan named as Jude is a rebel and whose songs became the anthems of civil right movements and "end the War against Vietnam movements". The raging Jude shows Dylan when he trades insights with gay-poet Allen Ginsberg, his snapping on a journalist and even thinks of gunning down the audience of folk at New Port in 1965, who booed when he traded his acoustics to electric.

When talents like Haynes and Blanchett come together, it becomes an unforgettable movie eventu2026u00a0
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