Yesterday

Yesterday was released in 2019, and I thought it was charming that most of the Beatles are still alive to be able to watch it.  Also, it tried to explore the concept of an alternate universe, yet didn't go far enough to guess what might have caused the 3 people to remember the Beatles but not the others.  Why these specific 3 people?  Or perhaps there might have been more people who have memories of the Beatles?

There is more than one world famous British band, and for the screenplay to select Beatles was quite interesting.  Of course the Beatles are famous, even today.  Yet for someone who came into existance waaaaay after the Beatles were no longer a band, it was rather startling that I could recognize some of the songs in Yesterday.  I mean, I know the Beatles are like really huge back then, but honestly I've never saw the need to listen to their songs.  So to be able to recognize the songs was to me like woah!  I've actually heard songs of the Beatles without realising they were Beatles' songs.  May be I am the one in an alternae universe... 

Ed Sheeren had an interesting and slightly comic outing in Yesterday, and it was interesting to see the lead character going to Liverpool, Strawberry Field and Penny Lane to get the feel of the Beatles' songs.  That almost felt like a fan pilgrimage.   The alternate universe also imaged a John Lennon, very much alive and who had grew old.  I suppose that scene must be so poignant for die-hard Beatle fans and the Beatles themselves.

Yesterday is a fairly easy movie to watch, that doesn't involve any excitement in the form of complicated CGI or action sequences, but it does kind of bring across the fact that the world could have been a poorer place without the music of the Beatles.