watched BLUE GIANT (2023) and I’m obsessed
this movie meant so much to me for real. the fact that it’s not just about the young phenom powering his way to the top of the jazz world (which doesn’t exactly pay good anyway), but about the friend who is swept along and finds himself burning with a passion to play. the talented kid on the inside track of the scene who realizes he’s phoning it in. the bartender with the secret wall full of records. the old man who comes by purely to watch the drummer improve. the man on the street who comes on a whim and is transfixed. all moved by the power of this music, all part of the jazz community. it’s a communal art form about the power of being an individual
one thing this movie talks about a lot is “believing in jazz”. they never define it but as someone who’s been trying to learn the music for a year and a half or so, it made perfect sense. the art form is always “dying” and people in the movie reference that a lot, but at the same time you can see they all fervently believe in it. it’s a beautiful thing that jazz never died and won’t die as long as people believe in it, play it, go listen to it
An absolute banger of a soundtrack, sasuga Hiromi (well known Japanese jazz pianist and composer). It wouldn’t have worked without this absolutely virtuosic music
seeing it again tomorrow and will probably cry again lol 