Across the universe
A dock worker Jude travels to America in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother Max is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism. The film title and main characters are named after various songs by The Beatles.
Musical based on The Beatles songbook and set in the 60s England, America, and Vietnam. The love story of Lucy and Jude is intertwined with the anti-war movement and social protests of the 60s. Over 30 Beatles' songs are woven into the plot together with visual allusions to films Help! (1965), A Hard Day's Night (1964), Magical Mystery Tour (1967) (TV), Yellow Submarine (1968) and Let It Be (1970).
An original musical film, Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by The Beatles that defined the time
I thought I would put together a little synopsis/review of the movie, so you can decide whether to see it or not .The plot of the movie, while full of many side stories and copious characters, is pretty simple. The general story-line is that a guy named Jude travels to America from Liverpool, England to find his father, and at the same time falls in love with a girl named Lucy. the story is set in the middle of the Vietnam war, and Lucy decides to join a protest group who turn radical, which weakens Jude and Lucy’s love for each other. Jude ends up getting sent back to England beause he came to america without a visa. I won’t ruin the ending for you, but it involves the song “All You Need is Love”. The cool thing about the movie is that it stitches the story together with songs by The Beatles. I really liked this, as I like The Beatles’ music. The songs seem to fit so perfectly, and they help tell the story in a unique way.Now for my thoughts on the movie. I liked this movie, I thought I had a plot that wasn’t too predictable. It was a little psychedelic in parts, but I guess that’s understandable as it is set in the late 1960’s (if I did my math correctly). I thought the characters had good “chemistry,” which is all to uncommon in movies these days.I would give the movie 4 out of 5. It had a good story, good music, and overall, it was great!Across the Universe is now available on iTunes, or at your local dvd store