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Rocketman. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Taron Egerton, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jamie Bell, Harriet Walter, Tate Donovan, Gemma Jones, Charlie Rowe, Jimmy Vee, Steven Mackintosh, Matthew Illesley, Kit Connor, Ophelia Loveibond, Celinde Schoenmaker, Stephen Graham, Rachel Muldoon.

We are all the heroes of our own story, that much is universally acknowledged, we may flatter to deceive ourselves, we embellish certain parts, omit the painful if possible and yet despite all this we might also think of our existence in stark black and white, the villain, the destroyer of dreams and the devil in everybody else’s detail. It is human nature to see ourselves as both the dashing hero and the anarchic tornado which sweeps through the lives of others, pulling the ground that is beneath their feet and tossing them aside when the mood suits us.