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The space within us
I had seen snatches of “Paul McCartney: The Space Within Us” a couple of times on Public Television and was excited to watch the concert on Blu-ray, which finally came up in my Netflix queue yesterday. The first few moments of the video were promising. The Beatle aura, the anointing, Paul wore as a given, but with the usual wry generosity. He was in great shape, physically and vocally, hitting a couple of the old brash McCartney high notes that almost made me come. But my excitement, sadly, was short-lived. The New York concert production looked phenomenal - I wish I had been there. Because the video, as many reviewers have already noted, is a mess. There is so much cutting that it was like watching a 2 hour-long trailer instead of a concert, which completely undermined its substance. It was as if they had 48 cameras, and they were going to use every one of them, dammit, on every song. And yea...