Movie Review; Tangled Up in Stages of Dylan

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In "Dutch," Edmund Morris' controversial interpretive biography of Ronald Reagan, the author became a character in Reagan's life to provide a first-person account of events he never witnessed. He presumably used such a literary device in search of a truth that mere facts could not contain.

Few would say that the Gipper and Bob Dylan were cut from the same cloth, but, by using a similar conceit, writer-director Todd Haynes' bold and prismatic Dylan biopic "I'm Not There" suggests that the two men are similar at least as opaque reflective surfaces in which we see our own image smiling enigmatically back at us.

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Movie Review; Tangled Up in Stages of Dylan

Which makes "I'm Not There" more about what Haynes sees in Dylan than about Dylan himself, which is why many may not recognize Dylan in this ...

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