Love and Mercy

Tue, 08/04/2015 - 9:03am by manz

The film Love and Mercy is a bit of a music biopic that sheds light on the story of Beach Boys’. singer and songwriter Brian Wilson. He is wonderfully portrayed by Paul Dano and John Cusack at two very different stages of Wilson’s life and the split storyline darts in and out, detailing Wilson’s workflow, anxiety, and musical genius. In the end it shows Wilson in the 1980s as a very broken man under the overbearing care of his therapist Eugene Landy, and then the inevitable release of this care which leads to where he is today. It’s a well done story and it was great to hear all the Beach Boys. music throughout the film. Those boys sure can harmonize.