Part One is at times, frankly, a little tough to watch, as there is a palpably odd vibe (to borrow from the vernacular) to it. But the cameras are so ubiquitous the unrelenting they often, especially in Parts 2 and 3, seem to forget about them and we see how they truly worked together as a band and as friends.
Yes, there is an awareness on their part that they’re being filmed. We are in the room with them, hearing and seeing how they interact with another in a way that’s nothing short of revelatory. And Get Back’s greatest accomplishment emotionally is that feeling of truly having a mysterious, inexplicable, intimate knowledge of them is intensified geometrically. I’m talking in sweeping and simplified generalizations, but I hope you get the gist. Their music and their personalities can make you feel on some deep and ineffable level that you know them and they – somehow – know and understand you. So much so that even casual fans have some vague and yes, reductive, notion of who they were: Paul polite and cute, Lennon funny and biting, Harrison removed and spiritual, Ringo affable, etc. But beyond that, more than any band I can think of, their personalities were so interesting and large that they had their own narratives. Of course, most of it is that they wrote and recorded some of the greatest music ever, period. Allow Me To Mansplain The Beatles For A Secondīut here’s my theory about why The Beatles get into so many people’s nervous systems and stay there forever. It has fundamentally rewritten the story of how and why they broke up, for one. But if you’re a serious fan of The Beatles, well, it’s one of the most fascinating things you’re likely to ever see on them. If you’re moderate fan, I think you’ll enjoy it quite a bit, even though you’ll maybe want to fast forward here and there.
This project wasn’t really made with them in mind. First off, if you’re at best a casual fan of the band, I’d wager there will be parts that will be pretty tedious and downright yawn-inducing. Spoiler Alert: The Beatles Eventually Break Up So, having had some time (not enough, I’ll be returning to and unpacking this behemoth for a while to come), I’ll offer my first impressions. I’d not planned on posting in depth about “Get Back,” but after a couple of people expressed disbelief that I hadn’t, I realized, “Hasn’t my entire life on social media been leading up to this?” Fair point.
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