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Message to Love: The Isle of Wight FestivalRating:
Release Date: 09 July, 2002 Retail Price: $23.99 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (16 total) |
Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival Reviews
A True picture of the love and peace era.
My brother went to this and i've always been envious. He slept through Hendrix (probably judging by the lacklustre performance a lucky break) but said that Cactus, Free and a show stopping Taste were the highlights (there was a promise that the Taste gig was to be released in full-but still nothing!) Anyway all these years later i get to see what he was on about. On the whole musically it was better than Woodstock, but at least at Woodstock you got the whole songs not a lot of edits as on this, but what you do get makes you wish for more Taste of course, Jethro Tull and a brilliant Miles Davis (edited badly) are top notch. The Doors and Leonard Cohen are uninspired and Joni Mitchell is twee. At the end i sympathised with Rikki Farr afterall he promoted the thing why should a load of grumby anarchists expect it to be free and storm the gates. I couldn't help but wish the security guard had belted the moronic American 'radical' (who probably owns real estate now)making an ass of himself by was urging the guard to hit him and felt more sympathy for the guard dog that got killed by the gate crashers. If anyone has read up on the festival the whole thing would of passed off peaceably (as the other two had) if the local council hadn't moved the site. So they were the real villians. The guy at the end who gave his kid LSD is another moron. Actually the whole film is a 'screw you' to the Woodstock generation which i never brought into, but at least 'message to Love' is an honest view of what was essentially the end of love and peace. Shame that there wasn't more music-according to the rock festival site it's out there somewhere!
Entertaining but not overwhelmingly so!
If you are looking for a Cecil B. Demille motion picture, you had better look elsewhere. But if you would like an easy trip back in time to see what was important to the youth of that day, this is a great vehicle. Great clips that I had never seen of Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Alvin Lee and Free. What is somewhat disappointing is that they hardly showed any songs in their entirety. And the tight shots of the artists were nice at times but at other times you could almost count nose hairs, making for a loss of perpective.
I went into it (the purchase) without great expectations but I think I got my money's worth, and then some. It was fun to watch.
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