Sing Street (2016)

Sing Street is an unfortunately forgotten movie.

It has vibrant colors and themes about love and music.

It was released in 2016 and was completely overshadowed by La La Land.

This is a real shame because this is a film with heart, an airtight screenplay, and in our opinion (quite controversially), better music than La La Land.

Sing Street is about a boy who’s stuck going to a catholic school in Dublin in the 1980s.

All of a sudden, he meets a beautiful girl and tells her all about his band and how she needs to be in their next video.

Now he just needs to start a band.

This film is directed by John Carney, a man who has one thing on his mind: the power of music!

It’s a theme he can’t seem to get away from no matter how hard he tries.

This obsession started in 2007 with the movie Once, a nice drama starring real musicians who used the film as a way to get their work out into the world.

Several years later he continued this theme with Begin Again, a sweet movie starring Kiera Knightly, and Mark Ruffalo, and featuring a supporting performance by Adam Levine.

I know we all like ragging on Levine, mainly because it’s fun, but the film does feature a genuinely great song by him that was written by Gregg Alexander of New Radicals fame.

His direct follow-up to Begin Again is this film, a movie about how you can discover yourself, connect with others, and find freedom in music.

This year Carney has a movie coming out called Flora and Son, a dramedy about a mother learning to play the guitar and connecting with her music teacher, played by Joseph Gordon Levitt.

If this is as good as his other music movies…

WE. ARE. IN.

At first, this may seem like an odd movie to cover this week. Why would we choose a movie about a boy romancing a girl during brothers' week?

That’s because it’s not a movie about romance. It’s a love story between two brothers.

This film is a love letter to our older siblings and how they paved the way for us to be able to be free and follow our passions.

Passions that we more than likely stole from them.

Film is a visual medium.

An underused trick in movies is to show what your characters want through dream sequences.

We’ve all seen scenes in which the dorky but “lovable” hero is creepily staring at a girl and slobbering over the idea of making out with her. Then it cuts back to reality and people point and make fun of him for having a boner, A.K.A. cinematic gold!

Thank God this scene is different!

This is a scene that opens up to its audience about what our protagonist actually longs for. It doesn’t tell us, it shows us.

We see approval from authority figures, we see the young love his parents once had, and we get to see him as he yearns for his brother to get his life together and be the protector that the film will later reveal him to be.

Guess Tomorrow’s Film