Martin Scorsese’s Bob Dylan documentary is now on Netflix. Read mike_hogan on why it might just be the rebirth myth America needs right now
Joan Baez
At that, Dylan goes from bashful to gloating in record time. Thought, he wants Baez to know, is what ails her. “The effort required to unpack this single scene tells us a lot about both the impossibility of ever getting a straight version of Dylan’s story and the way that challenge is met byand later directed the seminal biographical documentary. To begin with it’s not even clear if the Baez-Dylan encounter is real life or acting.
Scorsese’s implied thesis is that this effort by a burned-out singer-songwriter to recapture his muse had a larger meaning. It was a quest on the eve of the Bicentennial to resuscitate the optimistic, can-do spirit of America, which had run aground on the twin shoals of Vietnam and Watergate.
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