Being a film major, it's hard for me to not analyze the plot, even though many claim there is no plot point or characterization in this movie. I have to disagree with that. I understand the film being used as one big music video, however, there is a story line and there are characters who grow and change. The plot is about a young musician struggling to grow up and into his own. He struggles with his music career, his love life, and his family and personal drama. The plot is plenty complicated to me. The Kid had everything on the line and had to deal with it all at once. The family drama is the main source of the plot, being the one thing that domino affects onto his music career and love life. The Kid changes from the beginning of the film to the end, and it was nice and entertaining to watch. The quality of the film however is not it's strong suit. The music does carry the film, and those were the parts I enjoyed the most. The acting and production quality was not up to par and was often comedic to watch where you couldn't take most of the scenes too seriously.
Haha, I love this ^ An example of one of those ridiculous scenes.
Overall, I enjoyed this film very much and like I said, it had a job to due and it succeeded very well in that.
I think the film did have a plot. It was definitely not a traditional plot but it was there. The film had some funny moments and some really bad acting but it did what it needed to do. Also the part where the girl got naked and jumped into the lake was so random and did not really do much for the plot.
ReplyDeleteI can see where there was an attempt to have a plot about Prince's life. It just seemed like the "writers" of this film threw a whole bunch of situations together and hoped that it would all stick in the end. For me it didn't. There was his music drama, his band drama, his love life drama, his rival band drama, his losing his job drama. This film was like watching a very 80's soap opera with the occasional good song every now and again.
ReplyDeleteWhat I'd like you all to work on as film students isn't analyzing the plot--especially with non-Hollywood 80s movies, but rather analyzing the _images_. The plot is only the surface, and if you focus only on that, you're going to get frustrated--especially when you get into experimental or purely abstract films. This certainly had a plot, but it was a very formulaic one about the struggles of a young artist. A bit more work with the reading would have been good here. Another significant thing about the 80s was that this was the beginnings of the same media and marketing synergies that inform entertainment marketing now.
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