Jack Malick (Himesh Patel) is a musician, but no one cares about his compositions. After the years have passed, he has failed to achieve any success, so comes the day when he finally decides to put down his guitar. Then he has a peculiar accident on an, as it turns out, cosmic scale - the whole world is plunged into darkness for a few seconds, and Malick is hit by a bus. When he finally recovers from the accident and comes home without front teeth, his friends hand him a new guitar. Out of gratitude, Jack decides to play and sing his beloved and very popular song ... It's Yesterday The Beatles. Friends cannot believe how beautiful the song Malick performed. This is because they had never heard her before.
Jack is facing a unique opportunity not only to show the unconscious world the beauty of the music of one of the greatest bands in history, but also to achieve musical success himself. If you didn't manage to do your own compositions, that's too bad. You will definitely succeed with the Beatles!
And, of course, it works. Without going into the details of the plot, the film is Jacek's way to the top, although this element is actually the background for ... a love story. A love story that begins unexpectedly, because it turns out that Ellie, a friend and former manager of Jack (Lily James), had 20 years of love for him that he did not reciprocate - so Jack does not treat success as a tool to help gain him in the eyes of his beloved, and as an end in itself. Unfortunately, the movie probably wastes all the intriguing ideas, abandoning the chances of exploring some really cool themes, making them less and less relevant as a backdrop, and focusing on a love story where it's just about making Jack realize he's been wrong. Detriment.
The film Yesterday, therefore, feeds on the popularity of Beatles classics (yes, in the film we only hear the best of in Malick's arrangement) - it feeds just like its main character, because the vast majority of the screening does not feel a hint of genuine love for the band. Boyle clearly does not care about supporting the plot with the Beatles in a more artistic or even romantic way. At some point, we also realize that this film does not tell about the world that The Beatles are discovering - which in itself could be an extremely emotional plot. Curtis and Boyle found no way to show us that a world without the Beatles was more barren. On the contrary - despite the absence of this and other elements (yes, "Beetles" is not the only popular thing that has disappeared from this reality) the whole world lives ... exactly the same. He's just doing something else.
So it turns out that The Beatles did not have any significant influence on the shape of later music! It is a great failure for the creators' imagination, but also an insult to those great works known to all, which, as you can see, have changed nothing at all. What's more, the listeners accept Jacek's songs by Jacek with great enthusiasm, the musician quickly lands at the top, and this significantly negates the value of everything that was behind the legendary songs - that is, The Beatles! Apparently, their personalities had absolutely nothing to do with this great success that anyone could repeat with the same material.
Yesterday focuses on the love story, the failed approaches of an unhappily in love Ellie, and ... Jack's conscience, who finally begins to feel unfair to the former manager and the world. And maybe it would be okay if it hadn't turned out to be such a simple rom-com thread, treating all the original elements as story lockpicks.
However, Yesterday's charm and sense of humor cannot be denied. Motives for recomposing and recalling lyrics by Jack, interactions between characters, very self-ironic performance by Ed Sheeran, great interpretation of Help! (the protagonist, performing this piece, genuinely cries out for help - there were shivers!), many jokes, and above all, the absolutely phenomenal figure of Ed's manager (and later Jack), played by Kate McKinnon Mandi, who is painfully honest, cynical and pragmatic the way of being steals every scene ... There is a lot of simple good in this film, the problem is that after such an idea and such names of creators it is impossible not to expect more. At a time when every innovative idea for a film's plot is worth its weight in gold, it is impossible not to feel a great deal of regret and disappointment when one of them turns out to be so carelessly disregarded..
