Why <em>Yesterday </em>Made Me Cry
A writer contemplates how a film that imagines a 78-year-old John Lennon could actually be moving.
by James Parker
Jul 11, 2019
2 minutes
This article contains spoilers for Yesterday.
“Are you ?” asked my son, 17, with ions of distaste pinging off him in the theater’s half-darkness. We were watching the silliest scene in the very silly , and I was indeed snuffling. I was sentimentally seeping. I was crying. Why? Because—in the universe proposed by the movie—John Lennon did not get
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