KISS MY FAT ARTS: lennon naked

I recently watched lennon naked the latest in biographical remakes of once famed super stars!

I myself am a great fan of Lennon and Yoks

their relationship was a work of art

This film explores the complex life and childhood of famous Beetle John Lennon it features minor roles by the people who featured in the life of Lennon including his fellow Beetles, his first wife Cynthia, his manager Brain Epstein and of course Yoko. I really enjoyed the film it was snippity and offered only a glimmer into the life of Lennon of sex, drugs and rock n roll, just enough to retain some mystery. The reproductions of his relationship with Yoko were fantastic and the film left you hating him and loving him all in one. Lennon was more than a musician he was a stoned genius.

Obv there was some issues in the film like the fact that christopher eccleston- a 40 something actor was playing that of a 20 something young man, yet Ecclestn does capture the emotional nature of Lennon's character which makes up for the age issue. Many are saying the film does not explore the creativity of Lennon and does not fully explore that of his fellow beetles or Yoko, but I think its just enough- after all it is Lennon naked not Lennon and the beetles.

Overall an emotional look at Lennon a man- child who in the film we can see was engulfed by his somewhat troubled childhood, with Lennon's mind constantly drifting to a scene in which he is only 6 years old we what the day Lennon's father left him in a beautifully cinematic reproduction of himself and his father flying kites.

read some more here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sv451

According to Sam Wollaston of The Guardian, the film's "continual looking back over the shoulder to childhood, to his mother and father, takes Lennon Naked beyond the merely biographical: it gives it a depth and a Freudian quality";

...Along comes Yoko Ono and by some completely mystifying chance, he hooks up with someone who allows that injured child to come out and play and feel some freedom of expression. Does this cure him? No. Does it help him? Maybe. You do feel he is a bit happier, though still desperate. He glues himself at the hip to Yoko and never lets go.

The film includes some inspiring cinematography, inviting the viewer into a visual display of those magnificent times, with glimmers of real footage combined with renactments of Lennons' experiences, below are a few moments which caught my eye...