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Originally Posted by cascavel
If you fall off your bike and hit your head and wake up in the hospital and only you remember the Beatles so you write their music and everyone loves you and you're getting rich at some point you would have to question your own memories and, perhaps, sanity. In his case, at what point does he begin to think that he is indeed a genius? I was hoping the movie would explore the issue of creativity, and it's effect on creators who just hear music in their heads.
The protagonists interaction with the other people who remembered the Beatles should have been extremely disconcerting to him and been more central to the plot. What happened to the world they believed existed?
His obliviousness to the attentions of his beautiful groupie/girlfriend and, later decision that she was the right woman for him and giving away the rights to his music all speaks to the possibility that he was, indeed, insane.
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**SPOILER ALERT** If you haven't seen it don't read this.
To answer a couple of your questions just for fun, when he realized with incredulity that nobody knew the songs except him (at that point) he played them but knew he was a fraud.
He was also astounded that cigarettes and a few other things were "uninvented".
When a couple of other people turned up he thought he was going to be arrested but they were so happy the music was out there again they didn't care that he was a fraud.
I think people in countries other than the US have a slightly different view of wealth at any cost and he realized from the "agent" that his life would suck being rich and famous, he did the morally brave thing and gave the music away.
I think you may be overthinking a charming fantasy, and trying to instead decide what you would have done.
It was in reality a morality play about finding out what is important in life and choosing that instead of the road to ill gained riches.
Just a fun little movie about what if, and using Beatles music to get there.
One interesting scene, why Back to the USSR? why not Russia?
Romcoms are always fantasies. Because in reality, are there really happy endings??? If it's a happy ending, it really isn't the end. Just maybe the middle.
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