@deanduncan63Saw #Tommy. K. Russell feels like Fellini, here. Juliet…/’65. Imagination! Insularity! Then come those beans. Make that Fellini ’69.
Feeling for/appreciating Miss Ann-Margret, anachronistic vibrato & all. Gives her all/does her best!
#Tommy. Can you even believe that “Pinball Wizard” sequence? Look closely though: there’s a shot in there, …
… a compound camera movement that features The Who themselves, that makes me happy to be a film lover.
#Tommy. Pete Townshend’s ’12 autobiography helps a lot! The 1st pt. of this head-scratching story is trauma-derived, & it plays …
… like raw, un-analyzed dream matter. The 2nd pt. is success/aspiration, & it parallels its author’s very sincere, sometimes self-defeating soul aspirations…
… Cf. Brian/The Beach Boys’ God Only Knows. Not a conventional hymn, but sure meant that way!