Imagine a world suddenly deprived of what is important to you personally. A world where Rowling didn’t invent Harry Potter. Or put an end to the great confrontation and there was only one carbonated drink. Or the one where John, Paul, George, and Ringo never met, wrote songs, or walked down Abbey Road. Imagine such a world – with a shudder and interest – really want after watching the optional, but charming film by Danny Boyle “Yesterday”.
Time-tested plot: the hero dreams of something, takes timid steps towards a dream (or lies confidently in its direction), but does not succeed too much – exactly until a fateful “suddenly” happens in his life, which magically delivers him straight to his destination – to fame, fortune and / or great love.
Such a “suddenly” in the life of an ordinary musician Jack Malik is a global power outage. In the few seconds that the world plunges into darkness, Malik manages to get into an accident and find himself in a parallel reality in which no one has ever heard the songs of The Beatles – simply because the legendary Liverpool Four never existed.
How and why this happened is not clear, but also insignificant; what the musician will do is more or less clear. Much more interesting is to turn on the fantasy and try to imagine a world in which there is nothing that is dear to us. And do it in as much detail as possible.
Quite a psychotherapeutic exercise that allows you to think about what is important and valuable for us everyday
Imagine not being able to take it off the bookshelf and flip through the book that once shaped us. You can’t find your favorite track on the Web or put your favorite track in the player, enjoy the familiar taste of the most ordinary dish – for example, what we used to eat for breakfast. We cannot perform simple routine actions, the importance of which for us we did not suspect.
This is quite a psychotherapeutic exercise that allows you to think about what is important and valuable for us from the simple, everyday, everyday. And, perhaps, continue to refer to this more often.
Three more reasons to watch “Yesterday”
- Rethinking the work of The Beatles, adjusted for a modern context. What is the transformation of “Hey Jude” into “Hey dude” (eng. “Hey Jude” and “Hey dude” worth). – Prim. row.).
- An opportunity to once again think about the musical cuisine and the ingredients from which hits are prepared.
- Not alien to self-irony Ed Sheeran in the role of himself.