Last night cable channel Flix showed a true rarity. Its "Wonderwall", a movie whose soundtrack was composed by George Harrison when he was still a Beatle. And as a work of that era(1968) it is as weird and strange a movie as you can imagine. In a way, it reminds me of "Magical Mystery Tour" in its absolute trippiness and quirky sense of humor. It tells the story of a middle age scientist who finds a hole in his apartment wall that allows him to see the "swinging London life" of his next door neighbor (1960's icon Jane Birkin). But this is no typical sad voyeur movie, but is instead a surreal one in which you never know which acid induced imagery he will see next. Are the images real? Is he imagining the whole thing?
As for the music, it is George at his most Indian influenced moment. This is not Beatle George.
Anyway, this is a movie worth seeing for the adventurous and for Beatle fans.
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