Words are flying out like endless rain into a paper cup

The local theater sucks and never plays anything interesting, so I had to wait for the video release of Across the Universe, a film I've been waiting for since seeing the trailer last summer. I watched it last night, and it instantly shot to the top of my list of favorites. I've always said that if they made a movie about me, I'd want it to look like a music video. I'd rather it look like this. Here's the blurb from Ebert:

Across the Universe, from director Julie Taymor, is a revolutionary rock musical that re-imagines America in the turbulent late-1960s, a time when battle lines were being drawn at home and abroad. When young dockworker Jude (Jim Sturgess) leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in America, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), a rich but sheltered American girl who joins the growing anti-war movement in New York's Greenwich Village. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad. With a cameo by Bono, Across the Universe is "the kind of movie you watch again, like listening to a favorite album." (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times)

In case you didn't guess from the title, the movie is set (brilliantly) to the music of The Beatles. Here's one of the trailers:



And one of my favorite scenes (though just one of many):



I usually say go rent this movie. You should buy this one.