Across the Universe

Across the Universe is an American musical film directed by Julie Taymor.It incorporates 33 compositions of the band The Beatles.


The story begins in Liverpool with a young boy called Jude. Against the wishes of his mother and his girlfriend, Jude decides to go to the United States to search his father. After meeting his father, Jude has nowhere to go. He knows Max and they bacome best friends. When Max goes home to visit his parents, he brings Jude with him. Then, Jude meets Max's sister Lucy.
After that, Max moves to New York and Jude goes with him. After Lucy's boyfriend, Daniel is killed in Vietnam, she goes to New York to visit Max. Her parents are againt this idea, but she goes.


A relationship starts between Jude and Lucy. When Max is sent to Vietnam, Lucy becomes involved in the anti-war movement, while Jude starts in a apolitical movement . Jude becomes unhappy with the time that Lucy spends with a political group. So Jude's art and his relationship with Lucy both start to be destroyed. In the end of the movie the couple stay together again.

The six main characters:

· Evan Rachel Wood as Lucy Carrigan
· Jim Sturgess as Jude Feeny
· Joe Anderson as Maxwell "Max" Carrigan
· Dana Fuchs as Sadie
· Martin Luther McCoy as Jojo
· T. V. Carpio as Prudence

33 compositions of The Beatles:

1. "Girl"
2. "Hold Me Tight"
3. "All My Loving"

4. "I Want to Hold Your Hand"

5. "With a Little Help from My Friends" —

6. "It Won't Be Long"

7. "I've Just Seen a Face" ax

8. "Let It Be"

9. "Come Together"

10. "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?"

11. "If I Fell"

12. "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"

13. "Dear Prudence"

14. "Flying"

15. "Blue Jay Way"

16. "I Am the Walrus"

17. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"

18. "Because"

19. "Something"

20. "Oh! Darling"

21. "Strawberry Fields Forever"

22. "Revolution"

23. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

24. "Across the Universe"

25. "Helter Skelter"

26. "And I Love Her"

27. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun"

28. "A Day in the Life"

29. "Blackbird"

30. "Hey Jude"

31. "Don't Let Me Down

32. "All You Need Is Love"

33. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

This film shows us the power of people. When we want something we can achieve. But nowadays there aren´t people like the movie characthers, because people are interested only in themselves. They don´t care of the world problems.