![]() And a Harry show is live music at its best. The music was overlaid with the voice of Buddhist scholar Alan Watts, saying, “This sensation of being a separate lonely individual is a hallucination.” Watts is talking about the soul breaking free of “our phony feeling that we are something lonely locked up in a bag of skin.” But it’s also a perfect description of live music at its best: a room full of strangers from different cultures, countries, generations, breaking free to become part of something vast and strange and slightly scary. He took the stage to jazz pianist Bill Evans’ “Peace Piece,” which (as he told Rolling Stone in 2019) was his longtime wake-up ritual. And he does, from the tubular-bells synth groove of “As It Was” to the destructo-punk headbang of “Kiwi.” As he sings in the show opener “Daydreaming,” he wants to give you something to dream about. ![]() He thrives on an absurd drive to give his energy away, to bombard every corner of the room with the joy he gets from music, no matter how huge that room might be. It’s unmistakable how so much has changed about this guy, but not the weirdest thing - his pure devotion to Too Much All the Time. Harry’s residency starts almost exactly eight years after the first time I saw him onstage with One Direction, in August 2014 at MetLife Stadium. NYC in August is usually a place people are desperate to escape, but he makes it seem like the most romantic destination on the planet. You can tell Harry’s in town, by the trail of feathers and sequins for blocks - a touch of glam in the dog days of summer. As he told Rolling Stone’s Brittany Spanos in our brand new cover story, it’s a way to perform without the energy-sucking strains of travel. Styles is trying a new mode of touring, celebrating his blockbuster Harry’s House with extended residencies in New York, Austin, Chicago, and L.A. Let’s just say this man is not doing wonders for the city’s emotional stability right now. “Within reason.” It was a perfect intro, because the concept of “within reason” does not exist anywhere in the Harry cosmology - he couldn’t even say it with a straight face. “Please feel free to do whatever you want to do in this room tonight,” Harry told the fans on Night Two. He kicked off his NYC Love on Tour residency with a riotous two-night celebration of mega-pop rapture at its most ecstatic. When the entire crowd roared, “ Noooo!,” he replied, “Good!” We can’t say he didn’t warn us. Is it important to say that the lovers' couple is here composed of a black man and a white woman (Wesley Snipes and Nastassja Kinski who perform their roles very well)? I don't think so.“Newyork, Are you feeling well and emotionally stable?” Harry Styles asked on the opening weekend of his historic 15-night stand at Madison Square Garden. And one last warning: prudes, abstain from seeing this movie because you will hate it not so much for certain scenes (as a matter of fact we have seen a lot of more explicit ones in a lot of famous movies) but because you won't be able to lay your moral prejudice aside in order to admire the beauty of this true love story or to understand its rather odd end. One last word for the sound track music which is also excellent and adequate to the atmosphere of the movie thus reinforcing it and making us feel it more deeply. Another very important feature of the plot is the solid friendship between these two men which is revealed by some very moving deeds and circumstances. What does this mean indeed? The answer is not given in the movie so it's up to you to find it by yourself. Life is really an orange like the dying man tells his best friend in his deathbed. This story is really made of factual coincidences but this circumstance far from being a flaw, is its backbone since life itself is full of strange coincidences and those shown here are not improbable. He comes to visit him and that fact unchains a lot of coincidences and accidental events which will change some people's lives. In this excellent movie we are told an apparently very simple story where life meets death, success crosses with failure, conjugal life redounds in adultery and love triumphs over it all though in a somewhat strange way.
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