Movie of the Month: January

Hey, LBHS! Welcome back to my movie of the month review. I hope your new year has started off well. This movie is a biopic about a very well-known musician and Nobel Literature Prize winner… Bob Dylan! You may know him if you’re a huge music maniac, like me. Are you ready to find out the movie of the month? This month’s movie is drum roll…. A Complete Unknown!

In January, I went to New York City to visit my grandmother and we went to a movie theater near Penn Station. We saw A Complete Unknown, and both of us thought it was phenomenal. I didn’t expect it to be as well-written as it was!

To give a rundown of the movie, without spoilers of course, Young Bob Dylan, a.k.a Bob Zimmerman or Robert Allen Zimmerman, a nineteen-year-old from Hibbing, Minnesota moves to New York to pursue his dreams as a musician. Bob, whose a big fan of Woody Guthrie, a well-known folk singer in the ‘60s. Bob meets Woody Guthrie because he heard he was in the hospital due to Huntington’s Disease. Woody was his idol at the time, After meeting Woody and Pete Seeger, another fellow musician. Pete met Bob and he made Bob famous. Bob signed to Columbia Records, got a manager, and the rest is history.

Timothée Chalamet, who plays Bob, played him so well. I was amazed at how identical he was to Bob from the outfits, his singing/talking voice, etc. I was so interested in the movie, which I didn’t expect to be because I feel like movies now have especially gone downhill, they’re just not as good anymore. Truthfully, I really did enjoy this movie. I really admire Bob because he’s such a talented lyricist and musician. I think Timothée nailed the role and I honestly think he was made for it.  I thought Arianne Phillips, the person who did the costume design for the movie, did an accurate depiction of the ‘60s for Bob’s character, like the button-up shirt, leather jackets, jeans, basically the whole New York ‘60s scene. What really interested me was the cars in the film. I thought François Auduoy did a fine job with the vintage cars. It really made me feel like I was in the ‘60s watching. 

Earlier I mentioned that I’m a huge music maniac, I really am. However, I wasn’t that familiar with Bob’s music as a whole. I usually listen to rock and alternative rather than folk music. Folk isn’t my thing, but as I was listening to the music throughout the film I was really interested in the music that I started listening to it after watching it! 

I think it’s safe to say that I give this film a 10/10. I deeply enjoyed it to the point where I’ve been telling everyone I know about this movie because it’s so good! I’m in awe of this fabulous masterpiece. If you’re into biopics and amazing music then this movie is for you! That’s all for my review for January. I hope this got you interested in watching this fabulous film. Stay well and see you in February!