What's the next best thing to watching U2 live in concert? Watching them perform in 3D! Quite frankly, I was blown away! I just left the IMAX theater, and I can still feel and hear the music in my head! It was amazing - not because the acoustic of the theater was great, nor was it because the screen was 6-storey tall, nor because of the 3D effect (although, of course these added to the overall effect), but more so it was because of the power, the beauty and the sheer force that only Bono, The Edge, Larry McMullen Jr. and Adam Clayton can bring. At times stridently political, at times poignantly lamenting the loss of humanity's innocence - at times transcendent and sacred, often times profance and earthy, the band fearlessly tackled religion, politics, love, and the human condition of degradation and corruption, but their message is surprisingly suffesed with hope and love for humankind. What is unique and beautiful about U2 is not that they are just a rock band, but they are a band with a message. It was one hour and a half of total tour de force.
From the first strains of Vertigo's 'Hello! Hello!..." to the last notes of the prayerful, "Yahweh" the U2 3D movie is worth the P500.00 one had to shell out in order to experience the magic. Wikipedia summarizes the show through the play list: In the film, the band plays an 11-song set and returns to the stage for a two-song encore. One more song plays while the end credits roll. "Vertigo"; "Beautiful Day"; "New Year's Day"; "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own"; "Love and Peace or Else"; "Sunday Bloody Sunday"; "Bullet the Blue Sky"; "Miss Sarajevo" / Reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; "Pride (In the Name of Love)"; "Where the Streets Have No Name"; "One"; "The Fly"; With or Without You" and in the end credits, "Yahweh."
For me, one of the most moving scene was when they sang Ms. Sarajevo and its plaintive and strongly ironic lyrics. The song made way for the reading of the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Beautiful. Bono was like a shaman that brought the people to a liminal space where pains are soothe away, and where hope infuses the weary and the wounded. In one scene, he tenderly reaches out to the camera, and whispers, "I will wipe away your tears..."
You say that the riverfinds the way to the sea
and like the riveryou will come to me
beyond the bordersand the dry lands
You say that like a river like a river...
the love will come the love...
And i don't know how to pray anymore and
in love i don'tknow how to hope anymore
and for that love i don't know how to wait anymore
*U2 3D is a concert film released in 2008, the first live-action movie to be shot, produced, and screened exclusively with digital 3-D technology. The film is composed of footage from several shows from U2's Vertigo Tour in 2006. It is the band's second theatrically released movie, after 1988's Rattle and Hum.
(fromwikipedia)
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