I just saw Insurgentes and i must say that I'm amazed. This is not important to me only as a film lover, but as a Steven Wilson hardcore fan and also as a proud Mexican. So i can say that the film might not be liked by all the audience because it is targeted to a certain public, and those certain public is reduced even more to musicians, then Steven Wilson fans, then Mexican, British and Israeli people, besides that the concept of the film it's very heavy, loud, visual and at some points weird so it might be hard to swallow to some people.
This might be a spoiler. So i recommend to read this after watching the film.
The film is very subjective, every scene, every mood swing, every colour, every significant and intimate moment in the life of Steven Wilson it's going to be interpreted differently by each and everyone of us. Obviously, as i said before, the film it's specially for the fans, to the ones that could recognize "Trains, the Aviv Geffen's, Mikael Akerfeldt's and John Wesley's cameos, "Only child","No Twilight Within the Courts of the Sun", "Insurgentes", the locations in each of our countries, "Pain", "Halo" from Arriving somewhere, the autograph signing in Insurgentes at the Rock Shop (i was there), the scenes from Harmony Korine, the poem from the beginning of Port Rubicon.
The only thing that left me unhappy (and the Apple company) was the persistence of killing iPods, it's not wrong considering that it's his movie, the way he sees life but kinda kills the general mood of the film.
Concluding, this film it's art in every sense of the word, has great visuals, a great message, funny comments, reflexive thoughts, moving scenes and loving artful scenes. It's a must see whether you're a Steven Wilson fan or not.
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