Nowhere Boy

I recently went to the cinema to see Nowhere Boy. This film was based around John Lennon's teenage/young adult years of his life and how he made it to the top. It portrayed lots of different aspects of his life and conveyed things very effectively. I learnt a lot from the film and enjoyed learning more about John Lennon himself.



The film was very educational for me to watch. The Beatles weren't first known as the beatles but had a variety of different names that are shown throughout the film, so as well as being entertaining the film also provided some facts for people to learn. The mise en scene in the film is set in the late 1950's/1960's and this is shown very well. The use of music, costumes, props portray very easily the time when it is intended to be set.

The film contained a small flashback and although the way it was shown wasn't similar to how our film was it is the same idea. In the film John Lennon is forever questioning his mother and Mimi, his guardian/auntie about who his father is. It is then revealed to him that his father tried to take him away as when he was a boy at the age of 5 he was made to choose if he wanted to live with his mum or dad, and he chose his father. Mimi stole him so she could keep him as her own as she couldn't let his father take him away. The flashback shows this scene and shows how different John's life may have been if Mimi hadn't of stolen him. I enjoyed the film other than the ending, it ended too soon in my opinion and I thought it may have been more about his life with the Beatles too, but it just showed how the Beatles began to get somewhere in life.