Sunday, May 15, 2011

Bob Dylan Revealed

Despite a total lack of any original interviews with the man it is revealing, this patchwork documentary does a nice enough job of  highlighting some of Dylan’s stranger career moments with plenty of talking heads to explain what the man may have  been thinking to make such drastic changes in the first place. The sections about Dylan’s early career as a folk singer in Greenwich Village and his going electric are a bit pedestrian, but that’s to be expected given the fact that those are two of the mercurial singer’s more overly exposed career phases. The chapters about his life as a born again Christian followed by his bid to be a Vegas style performer, are riveting.

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