Wednesday 31 January 2018

Bob Dylan: Trouble No More

Bob Dylan: Trouble No More is a concert documentary of Bob Dylan's final album of the same name. This documentary is more concert footage and has been floating around the States in theaters since November for one night only events. Similar to Pearl Jam's Let's Play Two, it was more concert footage than anything else. The Trouble No More, was Dylan's entrance into more of a gospel phase. The "documentary" also paired this with sermons written by a southern pastor. They were spoken by Michael Shannon. While the sermons provided some insight to Dylan's lyrics from this album, it would have been nice if there was some form of commentary in the film about the correlation between the two. The Pearl Jam Let's Play Two documentary had a nice balance of why Pearl Jam was playing at Wrigley, and gave some additional history of the Cubs, the stadium, the fan base of Pearl Jam and the Cubs, and the neighborhood of Wriglyville, so it was a bit more well rounded. While I could appreciate Dylan's concert footage, the two points didn't seem to converge much, or have any given and take back and forth. Being able to see the concert footage on a large screen was nice, but ultimately I could have probably saved the $11 and streamed it and enjoyed it just as much.

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