Bob Marley Review – One Love | Although exciting, the biography is superficial

With beautiful lyrics, even if too superficial, Bob Marley – One Love arrives in Brazilian cinemas on February 14th.

After giving the public the beautiful biography of Richard Williams – father of tennis players Serena and Venus -, director Reinaldo Marcus Green decided to bet on another successful figure and brought the story of Bob Marley, the reggae singer, to the cinema most famous today. . The problem is that Bob Marley: a love while it was emotional and beautiful, it lacked editing, culminating in a tepid biography that didn’t delve into relevant issues in the singer’s life.

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To begin with, the film begins by leaving Nesta’s (Bob’s given name) childhood behind and showing the famous singer torn between the weight of success and the pain of seeing his Jamaica divided and torn apart by a civil war that claims victims everyday. Married to Rita, he has numerous children, although it is not possible to identify how many of his children there are or whether they are all the result of the relationship with the singer. This is just one of the stories that come along the way.

Other problems arise when the biography briefly explores the star’s childhood and does not detail her relationship with her mother. Her father abandoned her, but where is the woman who gave birth to him? How important is it in your life? Going further, how did Bob live with the cancer that took him out of the world? These questions are as fundamental as they are superficial, which is why the biography leaves the audience feeling like they are swimming on the edge while an ocean of possibilities awaits.

The singer’s relationship with marijuana is well represented. Without needing a pro-weed speech, Bob appears smoking in almost every scene and is always under the influence of weed. Here it is worth highlighting the exquisite work of Kingsley Ben-Adir, who plays the protagonist. Without exaggerating or giving a caricatured performance, the actor managed to effortlessly incorporate Bob’s mannerisms, and this becomes even clearer when he is on stage.

Whether in the smile at the corner of his mouth, the dazed look or the accented speech (some Americans even asked for the film to have subtitles), Kingsley proved that he had done his homework and studied the singer’s style well.

The background of the war was also well constructed and served to show viewers what it meant for the man who preached only peace and unity of people to see his country devastated by gunfire and deaths. The choice of show in Jamaica was another success, since in the symbolic concert he managed to bring together the country’s two most important political rivals. Despite this, the moments on stage are few and leave you wanting more.

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The creation of Exodus and the fragile relationship with Rita

Let’s talk about successes again, because they really aren’t few, One Love takes time to show Bob’s creative process and how he transformed his anxieties into songs. It is from there that we see Exodus emerge, the masterpiece of his career and which later, in 1999, will be chosen as album of the century by Time magazine.

All this storytelling is, in addition to being interesting, a pleasure to watch and brings the audience closer to the artist, but it doesn’t take long for the film to fall back into the same thing: superficiality. If on the one hand Bob writes his songs, on the other hand more things happen in his life, but they are always hidden for no apparent reason.

The relationship with Rita is something uncomfortable. Although she is described as her wife, what is seen on the scene is nothing other than the affection of the brothers of faith. Plus the talented Lashana Lynch even dedicates herself to her, but she gets a one-dimensional plot that doesn’t allow her to pour all of her talent into the scene.

This reinforces the idea that the film has a poorly crafted text, in which the secondary characters always orbit around a protagonist of a single story.

Finally, One Love is a love letter to the fans, to Bob, to reggae and to Rastafarian philosophy. A beautiful but short letter with a poorly crafted message.

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Rose

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