Paradox

This is the way films should be made more often. Not all of them but a good many. This isn't Hollywood so if you are expecting a three act, plot driven pile of industry crap it's not that, and it's not meant to be that either. And you will miss the point if you do. It is however a piece of brilliance and more of a visual poetic documentation of a way of life. Anyone who says different is lacking in intelligence. You have to nail yourself to the seat and watch it from beginning to end and slap yourself across the face several times as you watch it to stop looking for structure. Its flaws are what makes it a great film. Stick with it and have an open mind and it will sink in. 10/10 from me if there was an eleven I'd give it that. Mark my words it will be a cult film one day 👍

If you're looking for standard movies, big budgets etc.: go elsewhere! This film is not for you. If you can suspend standard expectations, you might enjoy this film. You'd have to know Neil's other films to see this and enjoy it. It's humorous and insightful (love is like a fart...) The filmstock is excellent, as is the cinematography. Viewers that expect standard formulas in films should stick to Hollywood-produced efforts. Do not go out beyond your comfort level! Reviewers that apply standard formulas to Neil's movies will just scratch their heads and wonder.

My advice : watch it between the 34th an the 53rd minute (cool live part) the rest is just random editing (no real story no cinematography, bad acting) with no particular interest... sometimes there is a good tune for a minute... globally disapointing

Self described "auteur" Darryl Hannah stumbles around some mighty pretty territory while her cinematographer Adam Vollick fumbles to get acquainted and haphazardly experiment with his camera in this disjointed slacked jawed oater that features legendary rocker Neil Young and his band playing cowboys. With only snippets of jarring visual interest and the ambiguity of the early moments dissolving into heavy handed pretense it takes a full half hour for Paradox to pull out of its scattered torpor as Neil and the boys come to the rescue with a stirring rendition of his Peace Trail. The respite remains brief however as Young takes one of his most beautiful acoustical works Pocohantes and turns it into a dirge with a portable pipe organ. The rest of his score simply provides intrusive bombast to enigmatic skies, glorious aspens and grazing animals (deservedly noted in the credits since they give the best performances) while cowgirl in the sand Hannah incoherently presents her surreal vision with an 8 1/2 version of two cowpokes tethered to the ground flying kite like above the tent where Neil and the boys perform. Paradox is similar in many ways to Young's wandering Journey Through the Past made in the 1970s. After the massive success of the documentary Woodstock Hollywood was eager to tap into the hippie phenomena and sought out Young who enlisted fellow pop troubadours that he would use and lose according to his needs over the years Crosby, Stills and Nash to make the same rambling self satisfied stream of conscious mess that Paradox is. This time around he's footing the bill and got a new band but the thrust remains the same, his presentation the nostalgic turn today that Lawrence Welk was offering his graying audience back in the 70s. Only the uniforms have been changed to protect the cool.

I so wanted to love this. Willy Nelson. Neil Young? How could it not be fabulous.The intro is more interesting than the actual story. Even if it were just an album. You would have to edit out the annoying screeches. Great idea but...as always it's in the details.