See Times Change, Like A Rollin' Stone, Through Bob Dylan At The Theater

Bob Dylan as played by Timothée Chalamet. Image Credit: Searchlight via IMDB (2024)

See Times Change, Like A Rollin' Stone, Through Bob Dylan At The Theater

Today, Joseph Robinette Biden delivered his farewell speech from the Oval Office in the White House while he prepares to leave office on January 20, 2025. Also, today, we at MAXINE went to the multi-plex theater to watch the film presentation and biographical style documentary of the beginnings and rise of Bob Dylan as a song writer and performing musician starting when he blew into New York at the age of 19. 

It is funny to have the reflection of a life lived during this time when Bob Dylan caught fire and became a cultural icon, have these memories become renewed, and recognize that the more things change, the more the cycle in a free society remains the same. Out with the very old and unhelpful leadership and policies and in with the new.

What really comes in as hot as a Santa Ana wind are the poetry and words of, and now proclaimed Christian, one Robert Allen Zimmerman (known worldwide as Bob Dylan), born on May 24th, 1941, penned during September and October after summer's end in 1963 after developing his career in New York when he arrived in 1961.

Both this movie, and the following song, drive home sentiments found through the lyrics and serve as a hope for the next four years (and beyond) to come. 

Come Gather 'round people - Come Writers & Critics - Come Senators/Congressmen - Come Mothers & Fathers - For The Times They Are A-Changin'.

EXAMPLE:

Come senators, congressmen - Please heed the call - Don't stand in the doorway - Don't block up the hall - For he that gets hurt - Will be he who has stalled - The battle outside ragin' - Will soon shake your windows - And rattle your walls - For the times they are a-changin' ... Bring on the 47th POTUS.

"The Times They Are A-Changin'" Bob Dylan - October 24, 1963

Come gather 'round people

Wherever you roam

And admit that the waters

Around you have grown

And accept it that soon

You'll be drenched to the bone

If your time to you is worth savin'

Then you better start swimmin'

Or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin'

Come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide

The chance won't come again

And don't speak too soon

For the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'

For the loser now

Will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin'

Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway

Don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

The battle outside ragin'

Will soon shake your windows

And rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin'

Come mothers and fathers

Throughout the land

And don't criticize

What you can't understand

Your sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old road is rapidly agin'

Please get out of the new one

If you can't lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin'

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slow one now

Will later be fast

As the present now

Will later be past

The order is rapidly fadin'

And the first one now

Will later be last

For the times they are a-changin'

ENDS

This excerpted and edited from Brian Tallerico - Managing Editor of RogerEbert.com -

A Complete Unknown - IMDB 7.8/10 - Rated R - 2hr. 21min.

Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan nails it. Not only does he sound like Dylan when he’s singing, he somehow captures the newness of these moments. When he plays “The Times They Are A-Changin’” for the first time in a great scene, it’s a song that a lot of people in the movie audience know by heart. Still, Chalamet and the production somehow convey the immediacy of that moment at Newport when these people are hearing a masterpiece for the first time. It gives the film an electricity that biopics almost always lack, feeling urgent instead of merely like a jukebox that’s been played a hundred times.

(Reference Here)

See Times Change

The movie was released the day before Christmas and, to be honest, is a Christmas present that can still deliver in "theaters only" today - January 15, 2025, just five days before changin' times that will prove to be better, much better, with leadership that actually respects just who elected them into office and signs their paychecks.

TAGS: A Complete Unknown, Bob Dylan, James Mangold, Jay Cocks, Elijah Wald, Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Joe Tippett, Searchlight Pictures, Veritas Entertainment, White Water, MAXINE