Beastie Boys Story
There are jokes, there are wild stories and there is incredible music — but above all there is heart.
There’s a slight awkwardness to the presentation, the pair reading from autocues to occasionally shambolic results, but the Beastie Boys were always winningly shambolic. And yes, it’s mostly the Beastie Boys doing a PowerPoint presentation, but what’s wrong with you that you don’t want to watch the Beastie Boys doing a PowerPoint presentation? Throughout there are jokes, there are wild stories and there is incredible music — but above all there is heart, the band’s lifelong affection for each other shining through. It’s subtly but significantly touching.
In a way, the whole thing feels like a tribute to Adam Yauch, the driving force behind the band, the explorer, the pioneer, the shapeshifter who was lost to cancer in 2012. His absence
is addressed from the start, and you feel him throughout. There’s a segment towards the end where Horovitz can’t bring himself to keep talking — pausing a few times to collect himself, to not completely break down — and you sense that he’s not just mourning his friend, but that he’s overwhelmed by all of it. By the whole journey.Watching in Fmovies
Ultimately the film is about time. What that does to us. How we contend with it. What we do with it. You feel for the band, but for your own life too, for your friends, your non-biological families — the families you choose. It’s about love and loss, growing, learning, maturing — and having a shitload of fun. That’s the film’s big magic trick. It’s about three white rappers from New York City. But — especially, maybe, if you came of age alongside them — you see yourself in it, reflected in it, inspired by it. And that’s priceless.