Review of Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) by A N — 02 Nov 2018

Overall, I love this movie. The performance by Rami Malek was wonderful as I could his resemblance to Freddie Mercury in the way he moves to the way he performs. Despite some saying that this movie was hollow and flat I rather think the opposite.

I think that it did rather well with its depiction of Freddie Mercury as someone beyond his stage persona and that the movie tried to show a more human side to Freddie Mercury and shows how his personality develops and how it leads to him doing the things that he did.

I rather like the portrayal as it shone Freddie Mercury in another light, more humane than what I'd originally thought. One of the things that I enjoyed most from this movie is how they celebrate Freddie's life instead of glorifying his death.

I was partially afraid that the film might go into a direction where they play on Freddie's disease and glorify him as some sort of poster child or something of the like. Thus, I was pleasantly surprised when they didn't go in that direction and drives home the message that Freddie didn't WANT to be known as some sort of poster boy for AIDs, as can be seen by him only revealing this fact the day before he died, but instead just wanted to be known for his performance.

So I feel that this movie did its job well in portraying AIDs as something that Freddie didn't take over his life. And most importantly of all, this movie celebrates Freddie's life instead of trying to glorify his death which is something that I was moved about.

Some reviews might also say that there are historical inaccuracies, but so what? This isn't meant to be an exact rendition or history lesson. At the end, it's meant to be a movie that explores another side to Freddie Mercury and celebrates his life and I think that that's way better than a historically accurate documentary.