bart_calendar (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bart_calendar) wrote,@ 2008-05-17 23:12:00 |
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Shine A Light
So, because I had the day off from work and it ended up raining this afternoon, I decided to go watch "Shine a Light" the Martin Scorcese documentary of the Rolling Stones concert at the Beacon Theater.
It was playing at my local expat movie theater.
Wow, is it an emotional experience. There are moments when the Stones are amazingly good. And there are moments when they are amazingly bad. "Marty", as Mick calls him during the film, captures both very well.
When Mick walks off the stage and lets Keith and Buddy Guy just jam for 10 minutes, the movie is brilliant. And when Keith walks off stage and lets Mick and Christina Agularia (sp?)rock out it's also brilliant.
But "Marty" captures the good with the bad. While he lets you see them have lots of fun on the songs the boys want to play, he also makes it very, very clear how bored they are of playing "Satisfaction" and "Brown Sugar"
That said, the tension between what they want to do and what they feel they have to do makes the movie fun.
For me the best moment is during "The Girl With The Faraway Eyes" when Keith throws his arm around Mick and gives him a kiss on the cheek. It's like they are brothers who both hate and love each other at the same time and are just giving into the reality of their lives.
So, because I had the day off from work and it ended up raining this afternoon, I decided to go watch "Shine a Light" the Martin Scorcese documentary of the Rolling Stones concert at the Beacon Theater.
It was playing at my local expat movie theater.
Wow, is it an emotional experience. There are moments when the Stones are amazingly good. And there are moments when they are amazingly bad. "Marty", as Mick calls him during the film, captures both very well.
When Mick walks off the stage and lets Keith and Buddy Guy just jam for 10 minutes, the movie is brilliant. And when Keith walks off stage and lets Mick and Christina Agularia (sp?)rock out it's also brilliant.
But "Marty" captures the good with the bad. While he lets you see them have lots of fun on the songs the boys want to play, he also makes it very, very clear how bored they are of playing "Satisfaction" and "Brown Sugar"
That said, the tension between what they want to do and what they feel they have to do makes the movie fun.
For me the best moment is during "The Girl With The Faraway Eyes" when Keith throws his arm around Mick and gives him a kiss on the cheek. It's like they are brothers who both hate and love each other at the same time and are just giving into the reality of their lives.
