Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock" failed to create the magic. In spite of a perfect recreation, the music failed him. People expect music and nothing else when they read Woodstock, but the film is more of a coming off age tale.
Young Elliot, loves his parents and is trying to get the dilapidated El Monaco Motel running. The sleepy town of Bethel suddenly wakes up to the news of a music festival being organised in dairy farms of Greenwich Village and thus Elliot embarks on a journey to witness the biggest and a life turning event of his life.
Woodstock offers a good backdrop to the film, but beyond that there is no much purpose, which I felt was equal to trivializing it. Elliot sees a whole different world through the eyes of many different people he comes across in the end coming out of closet and accepting who he is.
The film has beautiful visuals, but an incomplete feeling still lingers on.
Watch it for the amazing recreation brought on screen by Lee..
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