Across the Universe

All you need is love. *grin*


I stumbled upon this new movie by Julie Taymor, Across the Universe.

Summary: A dock worker Jude (Jim Sturgess) travels to America in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood). When her brother Max (Joe Anderson) is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.

I'm fond of musicals but what intrigued me most is that the movie is actually a Beatles songbook squeezed in two hours of film. Remakes of their songs, that is. Even before I read the movie info the fact that it was Beatle-inspired was a little too obvious... hello, the main characters are named Jude and Lucy. Lol. Well, watching the trailer I felt thrown back into the '60s again. I have yet to see the whole thing though.

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I got the soundtrack, finally. :)