I'm not talking out my ass guest2. I'm talking about what I've read about the film so far, and what I know about the Dylan myth and the Scorcese myth. That isn't so very difficult to do, if you think about what you are going to see in advance of seeing it, rather than simply react to it as if it were just any old concert footage revue.

The claims being made by the filmmaker and the reviewers, are that this film is about the transformation of Robert Zimmerman into Bob Dylan. So there is good reason why I compared it in my first post to The Motorcycle Diaries, which is also a film purportedly about the transformation of Ernesto Guevara into Commandante Che.

The film sounds as if it is mythologizing, in the same way Motorcycle Diaries' does, rather than offering any new insights into the transformative process of Dylan being consumed by his own self-mythologizing. Dylan (in his youth) was both blind and naive in his ambitions to be noticed, attended to as a star and celebrity, and adored by fans and critics and, well...everyone.

I think the very best, most insightful piece of documentary work ever produced about Dylan was Sam Shepard's "Rolling Thunder Logbook". It is truly the best piece I've ever encountered that puts Dylan's self-mythologizing into a coherent perspective (maybe because Sam Shepard is much better at the game than Dylan could ever hope to be).

You take it from there, guest2.