Guys, I was going to post my Curious George part two, but after a small discovery, this is now a post on the movie/musical Sing Street. So I just found out that Sing Street is coming out with a musical, which is OH so good, but I fear since the movie is pretty unknown, the musical is going to be viewed as random and confusing for those who have not seen the movie.
Also isn’t the movie technically a musical since it’s based on music and a band?Let me rephrase all that. The musical film is turning into a Broadway musical.
The whole story is based off a boy named Conner living in Dublin in the 80’s. His family is falling apart, as well as Dublin being very economically depressed. They are running out of money, and in need of a change. The solution his parents come up with is the transfer of Connor’s school.
He goes from this huge, advanced school to this, poor, broken down, Catholic school. Some notable experiences at this school are: getting bullied by Barry, meeting Darren, meeting Raphina, and the “Brown shoe” and “makeup” incident.
After his second day of school, having to walk around campus barefoot since he didn’t have black shoes, and his second encounter with Barry, he meets a kid named Darren. Darren introduces his problem solving business to Connor, to which Connor replies, “who’s she?”
He is referring to Raphina, who is standing across the road looking around. Darren tells Connor that he doesn’t know, and that she doesn’t talk to any of the boys, she just stands outside. Connor decides that he’s going to walk up to her and talk to her. A little bit into this conversation, she mentions that she’s a model and will be heading to London for work soon. An idea pops into Connor’s head which would change the course of everything. He tells her that he has a band, and asks if she would be interested in being in a music video for his song.
Raphina says that she will try to make it to the video, after making him sing “take on me” by Aha. She gives him her number and that is what set the tone for the whole movie. Darren introduces Connor to his friend Eamon whose dad is in a covers band. His dad is in rehab at the time, so Eamon allows the band to practice at his house with his dad’s instruments.
They put a band together and make a cover of “Rio” by Duran Duran. Connor shows his older brother this, to which Brendan destroys the tape and gives him a lecture about how if you want to be something in life, you have to make your own music not covers. “Rock and Roll is a risk. You risk being ridiculed.”
Now that he has a band, all he needs to do is make an original song for the music video. He and Eamon get together and start adding music to lyrics, which eventually becomes “The Riddle of The Model.” He gives this tape to Raphina, and they shoot the music video. Everything turns out really good, and they begin to work on more music.
While all this band stuff is going on, we find out that his mom is having an affair on his dad. Brendan was the first one to notice, and then soon after his mom and dad separate.
The rest of the movie is Connor trying to win Raphina over, as well as him trying to escape the reality of what’s going on with his family and Dublin. By the end of the movie, he runs away to London with Raphina to find record labels and modeling jobs. By this time they are fully in love, and we have found out that Raphina is an orphan from a girls home.
Something I would like to mention is the monologue that we get from Brendan a few days before he helps his brother run away.
“See that guitar? I used to be able to play that guitar. Well. I used to ride hot girls. I could run 200 meters faster than anyone in my school. You’re the youngest, you get to follow the path that machetied through the jungle that is our mad family. I was alone with them for 6 years. You think they’re crazy now? Think about what they were in their late 20’s. Two Catholics, in a rented flat, with a screaming baby, who just got married because they wanted to have sex. They didn’t even love each other. I was in the middle of that, alone. And then you came along, thank God. And you followed the path that I cut for us, untouched. You just moved in my jet stream. And people laugh at me Connor. The stoner. The college dropout. And they praise you which is fine. But once, I was a … Jet engine.”
Brenden is by far the most relatable character in the whole movie. He understands his brother and what he’s going through, and supports his brother, while also carrying the weight of what he used to be. I love his character development through the movie, and the way we find out his backstory slowly.
I think overall this movie is just super good, and everyone should watch it. Also it’s on Netflix for anyone wondering.
Kay, love you guys. Thank you for reading, cya next week.
