A Complete Unknown
"People make up their past." That's a quote from James Mangold's film A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet in the lead role as Bob Dylan. The quote reflects Chalamet's Dylan- a man whose past is unknown due to the limited information he shares about it.
The movie is told through Dylan's point of view; he appears in almost every frame of the movie, and the scenes without him can be interpreted as him thinking about the characters in that scene or Mangold forgetting that he had planned to tell the film in the 1st person and shifting it to the 3rd.
The first-person point of view contributes to the unsatisfactory theme of the picture: what does it mean to be "known" or "unknown"? First off, the title of the film, A Complete Unknown, is intentionally a curious choice for a biopic title. Many times, biopics are titled after the person they are based on (i.e., Lincoln (2012), Elvis (2022), or Oppenheimer (2023)), or something from the subject's life that many audience members recognize and associate with them, such as an iconic title from some of their work (i.e., Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) or Rocketman (2019)). Of course, many films don't fall into this box (i.e., The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) or The Greatest Showman (2017)). A Complete Unknown falls into the category of films whose titles serve as a taglines. This intentional choice by Mangold
was to evoke the feeling he wants the audience to experience in this movie, a feeling of magic and whimsicality, making them feel as if they're watching a Disney fairy tale where the character starts as a nobody and becomes a legend. However, it is actually a twisted version a fairy tale, where the protagonist just a _.
As an adaptation of part of Bob Dylan's life, which taglines Bob as "A Complete Unknown", this movie is just _. The film doesn't do anything to make the audience understand Bob.
The film features characters who despite being based on real people, are very simple, lacking complex motivations.
They don't contribute to the
The film doesn't present the audience with any _ of what drives them to play music. He's angry with life as a star. Just walking down the street, one person spots him, yells "BOB!", suddenly everyone jogs toward him; he seeks shelter by getting in a taxi. He exits a building, surrounded by girls; he walks into a car, with their hands pressed hard on the window. Walks in a room, hands block his eyes from seeing anything.
At the film's conclusion, the Newport Festival is portrayed as a source of Dylan's disgust, yet it remains unexplored in terms of its significance. This location as a place to stage
He states that he just wants to play original songs, but doesn't say anything more than that, like what originality can inspire, the purpose of having it, and why it's better than unoriginality; he doesn't want to say anything about it.
We don't get a nuanced understanding of what makes Bob Dylan's
The contrast in the film is very direct and not subtle, but it's not said out loud.
The movie portrays him as fed up with the music industry, wanting to be left alone to do his own thing. However, when he's alone and not focused, he's shown as a selfish person.
The reason why the film is called “A Complete Unknown” is because he has no sense of identity, when he gets what he wants he's not thankful or grateful for it but just absorbs it for some time then throws it out like it's meaningless.
He treats his girlfriend, he treats his mistress like she's meaningless, he just doesn't care about anything and strives towards no goals in life.
Doesn't want to take a stance on the statement that human behavior and emotions are just understandable and chaotic.
He's phenomenon
He doesn't care about ay
