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The Music Never Stopped is a story about generational conflict disguised as a medical drama. While they may exist I cannot recall a film that more accurately displays the harm the generation gap caused the parents and children of the Vietnam War era.
The film starts slow. A man stays sitting in his living room chair as a phone rings from the kitchen wall. The wife enters the home and sweeps in to pick it up. This scene represents the film. A father refusing to listen to his son, ignoring him. This is his inner conflict. He learns that his son has memory loss from a tumor, this is his external conflict.
If you watch this film and see it from the sons perspective, much of its value will be missed. This is not a film about a man who losses his memory. It is a story about a father who must learn that in order to reconnect with his son he must put his inhibitions aside.
This film does well at accomplishing what it set out to do. You know Henry, the father, is a stubborn music enthusiast. It is his biggest pleasure. I find that it was deeply felt when he decided to change his perspective in accepting his sons music in order to connect with him, making up for lost time.
I feel that this should be more successful that it is. It is a good story and def. a heart warming one that beats out many others who attempt to do the same thing.
score 7/10
barbaq24 6 April 2011
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18-4-2021 11:18:12