I’ve been wanting to watch this movie for a while and now that I have finally been able to do it, I must say I was delighted throughout. I liked it a lot, considered it time very well-spent and for days I couldn’t get the music out of my head (even more-so than I already usually have to try, given how good it is).
Like many others, I was bothered by the lack of precision on some of the timing and dates, including some things everyone knows about, but even so, they dared change them! Alas, I can understand that they made some changes out of convenience for the unfolding of the movie’s story.
So, back to it, I was enjoying the movie a lot and it suddenly ended, abruptly. “Is there something wrong with my Internet?” - I found myself pondering. “Where is the rest of the story?” - I wondered, whilst I was left really feeling like a huge chunk of it was missing. Later, when my disappointment has simmered down, I think I understood, that they mostly wanted to celebrate Freddie’s life, not so much his death, so they ended the movie with a focus on a very big moment in this professional and private life. That’s fine.
What I can’t understand, nor really accept, is the omission of his relationship with Jim Hutton. He appears almost like an extra here, whereas he had lived for many years with Mercury as his husband. Why did they make it this way?
As a big fan of Queen, especially Freddie Mercury, it kind of hurts to see him pictured as such a needy person… We are sitting there watching and thinking “don’t be such a fool!” But, this is one of those things that are impossible to know, for ourselves, how he really was, regardless of information pieces or documentaries, or even movies, so I can’t criticize the choice… They certainly had their own sources for how Freddie behaved with his closest colleagues and his friends.
Other than that, the LIVE AID event was, definitely, the highest point in the movie, as well as, Rami Malek’s interpretation, which goes to show he honestly deserves all awards he’s already gotten and then some!
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