Love & Mercy

A glimpse into the life and mind of an artist, which Brian Wilson clearly is, not only as part of the Beach Boys, in my opinion, was worth it. Besides the great acting performances, the film is interestingly and dramatically conceived, the individual flashbacks to the past and present are not random, but meaningful. (27.08.2015)

Beach Boys surely were a good band, but they just weren’t really popular in my country. For me personally this band means a few positively tuned simple hits that I’m not able to get out of my head and mainly the movie 50 First Dates in which its music is quite crucial. Therefore I was looking forward to Love & Mercy hoping that the creators would take an original approach to this movie. And they did. I really liked how at one point they focused on the process of composing music. Brian Wilson is a really interesting person. Not only he has music in his blood but he also has a lot to say from life experience point of view. You wouldn’t even guess the premise from his life that the creators decided to film in this piece. Which raises the question whether you would expect it of any other American musician. I was quite shocked, mainly by the doctor character portrayed by Paul Giamatti. Is it really possible for someone to get away with something like that in America? But because I know that everything really is possible in America, let me answer my own question. It is possible. Love & Mercy is a really interesting and, more importantly, unusual story of a leader of an inconspicuous band which was a direct competition of The Beatles. And rightfully so. (10.08.2020)