Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is...
If my memory is to be trusted - and (see previous post) it just might be - it is five years since we last went to an actual cinema. That seems an impossibly long time - longer than if I had said "not since lockdown", though it means the same thing. Last Monday was certainly our first visit to the no-longer-new Odeon cinema, with the elaborate food and drink menu and the fancy reclining seats...
We were there, of course, to see A Complete Unknown: a movie about Bob Dylan, following him through the period from his arrival in Greenwich Village as - well, yes - a complete unknown, from his immediate adoption of and by the folk scene he found there to his door-slamming departure: and all the while he was writing so many great songs, and we'd enjoy hearing those, too. I wasn't going to miss this.
( But... )
On the other hand, A Complete Unknown brought Dylan's music home for the Guardian's Laura Snapes: that's got to be worth something.
We were there, of course, to see A Complete Unknown: a movie about Bob Dylan, following him through the period from his arrival in Greenwich Village as - well, yes - a complete unknown, from his immediate adoption of and by the folk scene he found there to his door-slamming departure: and all the while he was writing so many great songs, and we'd enjoy hearing those, too. I wasn't going to miss this.
( But... )
On the other hand, A Complete Unknown brought Dylan's music home for the Guardian's Laura Snapes: that's got to be worth something.