It’s very good but I recently watched Nick Ray’s King of Kings and was surprised at how it held up. So much better than George Steven’s very slow and lugubrious The Greatest Story Ever Told.
It’s sad that Lennon, if true, was converting due to a mini-series but, I guess, whatever it takes.
> “It’s sad that Lennon, if true, was converting due to a mini-series but, I guess, whatever it takes.”
He was finally growing up.
For those too young to remember, John was like our reality show soap opera we grew up watching. He was just a normal goofball kind of guy who just happened to be blessed with incredible art genius. That genius thrust his character under the world’s microscope and we all saw someone that reminded us of ourselves or family members.
He was angry, immature, often wrong. Who doesn’t have a family member like that?
He was emotionally traumatized as a little boy by his mother and father’s arguing, their divorce and abandonment of him; really heartbreaking and explains a lot about him and others we see that have gone through the same thing. It’s all laid out in a great performance in the film ‘Nowhere Boy’:
http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2012/oct/11/nowhere-boy-john-lennon-teenage-years
If anything, the film should be seen by all parents going through a divorce.
Because John’s life was a global soap-opera with an untimely death, we have missed the part of his conversion and repentance to Christ. I wish a film of the same quality as ‘Nowhere Boy’ would be made about the end of his life where he finally came to understand and accept Our Lord.
> “ Nick Ray’s King of Kings “
Thanks. I’ll have a look.