“I’m not there” was the ideal brain candy for me. It is a biography that was more interested in making a statement than following a linear plot line and trying to satisfy people who are too lazy to read actual biographies. It is a good example of an “actor’s film”. It twists and bends history in interesting ways. I recognised one of the filming locales (the back of Montreal city hall in the Old Port). It has Bob Dylan music sung by other people. There is more than enough artsy faux-intellectualism to satisfy anyone and then there are zoo animals wondering in the back of the screen which may or may not be a nod to Satyricon.
If I had seen this film when it had first come out, I would have put it on my “Best of 2007” list, but as I only saw it the other day (though I was lucky to catch it in theater), it goes on the list of films I should have seen in 2007 but I had other things to do.
I should note that I neither know nor care much about Bob Dylan, I wonder if fans’ reception of this movie is less enthusiastic than mine.
