An insightful and intensively honest portrayal of the rock’n’roll lifestyle. Generally, the public is never privy to the painful lives that musicians and other famous artists (including within the film industry) endure from exploitation, isolation and mistreatment during their meteoritic rise to the top.
The end doesn’t always justify the means, but how the life of Elton John is portrayed onscreen not only serves as a story of grand success – but also of betrayal, torment, rebirth and ultimately one man’s back and forth journey of survival.
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