Yesterday (2019)
A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate timeline where they never existed.
Yesterday: a review
myronblender • 5 years ago
Yesterday promotes a truly unique storyline in which cosmic baby boomer nostalgia meets sci-fi. For those of us who grew up with the fab4 as age contemporaries Yesterday provides a mirroring perplexity: we are “rememberers” too. Each song Jack reconstructed calls to our youthful experiences that involve emotions as well as entertainment. How much of our own selves would be lost with the music were not Jack’s musical ability and love for Beatles music preserved? Those born 30 years later, like Jack, would not have experienced the same loss as those who went through puberty singing “I want to hold your hand” or started their careers listening to “A day in the life”. In Robert Frost’s ubiquitous poem “The road not taken” the traveler makes the choice. In Yesterday no such choice is offered. One instant and all of life is changed, which is always true, but not retrospectively. Here is a movie that asks not “what if I’d never been born” rather “what if someone close to me had never been known?”
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