Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I'm Not There. Holy Cow. Effing genius. I just realized something, watching this movie---I loved Bob Dylan. He was the first poet I loved. My father would not allow me to listen to his records so I'd get up in the middle of the night, creep downstairs and put his records on the turntable, press my ear to the speaker on real low and sing along. I memorized his songs. When I hear them now, I remember the words, like they're burned into my skin, on the backs of my hands. He got me out of that house, that stifling house, hypocritical, pretend family house. Bob Dylan opened up the world, the world I wanted to find out about. Skinny guy with hair, a terrible/beautiful voice and poetry. Look out kid, it's something you did...
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