"Bob Marley: One Love." A movie about how a cult musician was able to stop war

The movie about Bob Marley completely turns over the generally accepted idea of ​​King Reggi and his music. Why is Bob Marley: One Love Is a wonderful baptism? Because it answers three questions of any cool biographical film. Who is really bob Marley? What did he do? How did it change reality? Viewers on Rotten Tomatoes generously gave the painting 92% - absolute delight, and critics - only 42%.

The focus will explain this paradox and why the picture completely turns over the generally accepted ideas about King Reggi. The Jamaican style of Reggie, which has been dissolved in Pomusics since the 1970s, is associated with relaxing-recreation music today, which causes the sea, the sun and a beach bar with a wide range of cocktails in the imagination. Often, through this beach set, the anti -war pathos also views, as in our Ukrainian band 5'nizza, which professes this style.

We all heard the hit Boney M. "No Woman No Cry" ("No, Woman, Don't Cry"), which is directly the song of Bob Marley. And the earlier hit of the band "Rivers of Babylon" is also a Jamaican song by the local region of The Melodians, written into the text of the biblical psalms, which was transformed into a discoverer. As you can see, both the lyrical and the religious side were in the style of regions.

Judging by the movie, Jamaica Bob Marley was perceived not only as a popzir, but also as a prophet of rastafarinism. This religious movement emerged in the 1930s on Jamaica around the cult of Emperor Ethiopia Hile Selassie I, to the coronation of Tafari Makonnen, known as Ras Tafari: here-Rastafari: Ras-Prince, Tafari-Name. Hyle's supporters consider him the embodiment of God (Ja). And Ja is an abbreviated reading of the name of God Yahfe from the Bible.

In Jamaica, as in Ethiopia, Orthodox Christianity is widespread. Bob Marley's mother and wife were Orthodox Christians. How are Jamaica and Ethiopia related? Most of the Jamaicans are the descendants of Africans, whom British colonialists were transported to caribou for three hundred years as slaves for sugar plantations. Until 1962, Jamaica was a British colony.

So here's the first unexpected line of the movie is that Marley's father was an Englishman - British General Norval Marley, who served on Jamaica by the managing plantations. Norwal's relatives forced him to part with a dark -skinned wife - a pretty singer Sedelia, who was 40 years old. They married when she was 18. However, Norblu helped his wife (officially they continued to be married) and her son financially. Norb died when Bob was 10 years old.

At that time, the future king Regi lived in a house in Trenchtaur - in the criminal quarter of the capital of Jamaica - Kington. In a movie behind a little black -skinned boy against a burning plantation on a horse jumps a caretaker. He causes the baby. The boy stops, returns and looks at the man with big frightened eyes. The caretaker leans and . . . picks up the baby, planting her to his saddle is a father and a bean. This scene is presented as a vision or dream of gauze.

So, with the origin of King Reggi, everything is not easy. The second line. The prophet Rastafarian and musician Bob Marley (British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir) rapidly grew into such a large-scale figure that Prime Minister Jamaica asked him in 1976 to give a concert to try to reconcile power and opposition. There are two large parties in Jamaica - the rights of the Labor and Left Socialist National People's. They alternated in power. Both hired bandits to influence party opponents and "wrong" voters.

The armed conflict led the country before the Civil War. Bob gave the premiere consent. The picture begins with the fact that on the eve of this performance, three bandits burst into the musician's house and wounded his wife and manager shots: Bob was burned from the balls on his hand and chest. The artist did not cancel his performance, but instead of one song he promised, he sang an hour and a half. However, he soon went from Jamaica to London - to record a new album.

The third line is Bob's moving relationship with his wife Rita (Lashana Lynch). She was everyone for him. Despite the fact that in Jamaica he launched more than one mistress with a marriage. There were several children, but also the children of gauze from other women, she also recognized. She was his real muse. Without it, he could not create - she sang in a vocal women's trio in his band. In the movie, her wisdom and beauty are fascinating. The fourth line is creativity.

The authors show how the third album of the singer "Exodus" ("Exit"), which came out on June 3, 1977 and became a world sensation, and Bob Marley made a planetary star in London. Bob wrote it with his band The Wailers. By the way, the name of the team "Placars" also carried a religious hint. "In the Bible, there are more than enough places where everyone cry and sobs," Marley explained the group's motif in an interview in 1974. But still in his music is much more light than tears.

Since Marley believed that the main thing in the album is not his own glorification, but a religious message of "love and unity", he insisted on a minimalist design of the cover. All this is told in the driving tape and interesting. Fifth - anti -Phos. Marley his star status did not prevent him from being involved in London into local riots and even (accidentally) to stir up to prison. He treated this adventure with a great part of humor.

It also applies to his admiration for football: music by music, and to chase the balls of the ball is holy. The sixth is the theme of his illness. He had an aggressive form of skin cancer on his thumb in July 1977. He thought it was just slaughter from football, which heals poorly, so he was indifferent to a black stain under the nail for a long time. And after the diagnosis was announced, he did not decide to remove his finger: Rastafarianism did not approve of radical surgery.

He later engaged in an extensive treatment of the disease (diet) in Germany, which did not lead to success. Seventh is a concert of reconciliation. Marley, a star, to which criminal authorities who served political forces came to London, who served as political forces - even the bandits were already afraid of the scale of the Civil War in the country. He sent them, but later changed his mind.

And in 1978 he organized the One Love Concert Festival, which was called "Third World Woodstok" in the event. The culmination of the film was this performance of Marley. Since these historical facts are described everywhere, it is possible to tell - on stage he made an unexpected thing: while performing a hit Jammin 'suddenly said in a microphone: "I can't say, but I hope you understand me. Could we see at Mr. Michael Menli and Mr. Edward Saga scenes personally.

To show people that we will handle, we will unite . . . " . Bob forced them to shake their hands under the roar of the public. Of course, this is a historical moment that has no analogues. It is usually written that Marley "almost" stopped the civil war, because the armed clashes continued, but he still managed to reduce the aggravation of confrontation. People have already remembered the handshake of two opposing leaders.

The eighth line is the cool poetry of his songs, which goes on the screen in writing. For example, a very figurative line: "When everyone ceases to notice the color of the skin as the color of the eyes - the war will stop!" And in his famous song "Sun is shining" ("Sun shines") there are such beautiful lines: when the morning and a rainbow appears, I want you to know - I am a rainbow too: I'm here to save you. I want you to know where I am. We will raise our heads and give a praise of Ja.

You feel something that almost forces you to cry. It takes a heart. In a movie he says about it as a "message that Bayopik would be successful. How was the mega -popular movie about Freddie Mercury "Bohemian Rhapsody", which was produced by Queen musicians: $ 52 million raised the tape for a rental almost a billion. The focus wrote about this movie that was quite unexpectedly revealed by Mercury's phenomen a religious author who performs rock props. In life, it was not obvious.

But on the same Rotten Tomates, critics gave "Rhapsody" only 60 % (despite the fact that the executor of the head role Rami Malek received "Oscar"), and from the audience instead - 85 %. Why is such a gap? Critics were waiting for something "fried" and "sharp" - too colorful biography was in the Queen leader, saturated with scandalous external manifestations. But the authors focused on the three questions mentioned above. And - they touched the viewer.