Since the very dawn of the discovery of music, it seems clear and universally albeit silently agreed upon, that the world of dulcet tones and lovely lyrics offers both a spiritual dimension and a unifying force to humanity.
Music feeds the soul and nourishes the spirit. It is through music that people share the most positive and unilateral emotions in one moment of joy, sadness, pain or happiness.
Music brings people together but also to a higher place.
Pitch Perfect (2) may be just another sequel to a coming of age story but it does add value to the above ideas about music.
The plot and story line may be weak and predictable- almost non existent in fact in that there isn't much conflict between the characters or much inner conflict for that matter for each character-but it does offer the audience moments of emotional highs and lows through musical performances as well as through identification with one or the other of the versatile and well defined (mainly female) characters.
The colourful costumes and props as well as stage scenes add to the flamboyance of the musical numbers and the comic one liners are quite good, although perhaps collated together a little clumsily.
The humour is fresh and innocent, honest and uninhibited, and mirrors the personalities of the main protagonists.
It differs only slightly from the first pitch perfect movie in that the 'new recruit' does not have to prove herself this time as her predecessor did in the first pitch perfect. This time, she has a legacy and is accepted almost immediately.
The rest of the characters still hold their individual traits: the laid back cynical girl who isn't worried about much as she has seen much worse, the quiet strange girl who says things that are totally unrelated to the subject matter, the strong woman with the male traits, the beautiful 'casual relationship' type girl, the big girl who doesn't care what anyone thinks, the few others with very little definable traits in the background, the leader of the pack who is all about the success of her team and last but not least the main character who aspires to succeed in life and is honest, true and very gentle and likable.
The boys in the film are very much supportive acts in the background
My favourite scene was the 'face off' at the crazy club where musical themes had to be improvised into songs by the different teams. It felt like a very imaginative section of the film as it required humour, musical imagination and team work (lots of dancers and singers in that scene).
The little cherry on the cake was the music lingo used by the girls instead of the spoken word. This is in the scene where they had to agree weather to accept the new recruit or not: they basically sang two notes to each other which stood for either a Yes or a No (instead of voting yes or no using words) and I thought that was genius in that it sums up the film in a nut shell; a film about what music offers and what it can be and the heights it can carry us to.
This last point about the heights of music is reflected visually-funnily enough-during the end credits of the film where the names of the actors scroll down alongside their shadowy shapes. These shapes are similar and engulfed in a line of hazy white light. The emphasis here is not on the differences of the individual forms but on the unifying light of music.
This gives the impression of musical energy emanating from human shapes; energy which translates from audio to visual; a sonic projection out of the bodily outlines.
Perfectly pitched images of tunes.
Music feeds the soul and nourishes the spirit. It is through music that people share the most positive and unilateral emotions in one moment of joy, sadness, pain or happiness.
Music brings people together but also to a higher place.
Pitch Perfect (2) may be just another sequel to a coming of age story but it does add value to the above ideas about music.
The plot and story line may be weak and predictable- almost non existent in fact in that there isn't much conflict between the characters or much inner conflict for that matter for each character-but it does offer the audience moments of emotional highs and lows through musical performances as well as through identification with one or the other of the versatile and well defined (mainly female) characters.
The colourful costumes and props as well as stage scenes add to the flamboyance of the musical numbers and the comic one liners are quite good, although perhaps collated together a little clumsily.
The humour is fresh and innocent, honest and uninhibited, and mirrors the personalities of the main protagonists.
It differs only slightly from the first pitch perfect movie in that the 'new recruit' does not have to prove herself this time as her predecessor did in the first pitch perfect. This time, she has a legacy and is accepted almost immediately.
The rest of the characters still hold their individual traits: the laid back cynical girl who isn't worried about much as she has seen much worse, the quiet strange girl who says things that are totally unrelated to the subject matter, the strong woman with the male traits, the beautiful 'casual relationship' type girl, the big girl who doesn't care what anyone thinks, the few others with very little definable traits in the background, the leader of the pack who is all about the success of her team and last but not least the main character who aspires to succeed in life and is honest, true and very gentle and likable.
The boys in the film are very much supportive acts in the background
My favourite scene was the 'face off' at the crazy club where musical themes had to be improvised into songs by the different teams. It felt like a very imaginative section of the film as it required humour, musical imagination and team work (lots of dancers and singers in that scene).
The little cherry on the cake was the music lingo used by the girls instead of the spoken word. This is in the scene where they had to agree weather to accept the new recruit or not: they basically sang two notes to each other which stood for either a Yes or a No (instead of voting yes or no using words) and I thought that was genius in that it sums up the film in a nut shell; a film about what music offers and what it can be and the heights it can carry us to.
This last point about the heights of music is reflected visually-funnily enough-during the end credits of the film where the names of the actors scroll down alongside their shadowy shapes. These shapes are similar and engulfed in a line of hazy white light. The emphasis here is not on the differences of the individual forms but on the unifying light of music.
This gives the impression of musical energy emanating from human shapes; energy which translates from audio to visual; a sonic projection out of the bodily outlines.
Perfectly pitched images of tunes.
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