4/5
The Movie.
Blackpink in your cinema. We wish. COVID-19 has locked everything down in 2020 like Netflix has the small screen, home cinema streaming circuit. And don't even get us started on live concerts. But in quarantine you can almost live stream one with Netflix's new Blackpink documentary, 'Light Up The Sky' that really touches the stars at the same time their K Pop brothers BTS hit the big screen, trying to stay gold and 'Break The Silence' like dynamite. Hot off the heels of their 'Ice Cream' fresh collection of the 'The Album', the 'Lovesick' girls who tasted 'Sourcandy' (hearing them react to that song in the studio is like the first time we heard it) with Lady Gaga in 'Chromatica' have a N movie like 'Five Foot Two'. Now how you like that? YG Entertainment has big hits too and the biggest girl group since the Spice Girls is taking more than K Pop by storm more than Psy. Their around the world style is just that slick. Even if it is rooted in the same Seoul as an RM '.mono' mixtape. The South Korean group are the most successful girl one Twice over and in this world of solo artists featuring Heize or KATIE in first name harmony, this fantastic four break YouTube records routinely as Los Angeles Laker King James does NBA ones. These Queens like Beyoncé have earned the pink neon crowns of their album cover. Now watch their throne like Jay-Z and don't bum rush these pop rappers stage like Kanye. Back to black did you seem them burn the stage at Coachella? Because this one takes you back to that time. That now seems a million years ago. But at least for one night when you're watching this it's brought back right now as they touch the sky.
"Why are there so many people?" they ask amongst the silence of nerves, before they break new ground on the stage they burn as hot as their MTV era music videos as cinematic as this historic Hollywood moment in Coachella, California. It was like a real life 'A Star Is Born' moment for the singers hope enough to collaborate and take the starring lead with the 'Paparazzi' famous singer. It's all brought microphone to the lips close here, BTS...or should we say behind the scenes? As this close up of Jennie, Lisa, Rose and Jisoo is as inspired as it is intimate. All in bold pink caption caps. I'll tell you why there's so many people...because that's how many you influence. Don't get it twisted. They're no overnight celebrities as the violins play like the big bass beats for a group that blends genders like they do places they come from. New Zealand, Thailand and more. You can hear it in the Australian accent, or see it in the eyes that have seen the world. These girls have been around the world and I, I, don't think they're going anywhere. And I'm not talking because of corona. The planet and the balance of power on the axis has changed. Its K Pop's and these girls world now. We're just living in it and we love going along for the ride in the back of an SUV in Seoul. Or in the studio with prolific producer and YG Family pop legend Teddy Park. Before the girls go into a cinema and watch all their home movies and then step out into the streets of Seoul for all their individual introductions. Before talking about it all over coffee with a shop owner who first served them when he started out and they were just YG trainees. It all comes right back around. Look how far they've come as he brings four plates over and those girls dish on where they'll be 20 years from now. Paris? London? The US? Married with children? They laugh at a comeback trail that will see them stand instead of dance. They're already talking about the future that they already own. Knowing nothing lasts forever and that someone younger or better will replace them. But as they cherish every moment, you should too in these troubled, uncertain times. And hold on to it.
Black skies get deeper and darker however as the neon night goes on like the beat. This documentary delves into the hard times that come with the best of them. As the focused four try to keep in step, shade and sound mind a lot is taken to the limits of their endurance, physically and mentally, but they handle it all like warriors going into battle night after night. The microphones their swords, wielded like the mighty pen. Their words, their weapons as they kill this love. Rumpa pumpa. The stage, their battlefield and like Jin, J-Hope, Jimin and them, the fans their army. Tears are shed like sweat and even blood, but Blackpink are stronger with every one as they move millions like this compelling, cinematic take on the storytelling they direct in their songs with a crescendo of choreography. Fireworks illuminate like New York on New Year's for a group who owns this calendar like Korean Pop should the next decade of roaring 20's. You hear this fierce cry Sasha? As endearing as it is epic, this short 79 minute film captured by Caroline Suh is exactly what we need now in a world woefully devoid of devotion. It's something the nation of South Korea has needed too like its two biggest groups and the stand they make for young men and women everywhere. Especially in a country, continent and watching world crippled by the crisis of mental health problems that was already reaching pandemic levels of panic on this planet before coronavirus. Suicide in young idols of both music and the acting stage. But now thanks to acts like BTS making speeches of inspiring words of wisdom to follow at the United Nations and 'pink colouring the world with positivity like the exclamation point of the American singer. Change for the better is coming in the form of hope. Halsey's friends like a boy with luv are hallowed in this pop art genre as her name. Warhol would love this portrait. Just a fortnight after the relaxed of their first major studio 'Album' this forthright movie is the perfect music video accompaniment to their scoring soundtrack. Blackpink aren't just in your area like their ad-libbed, famous call sign. They're in their own and a whole new one. Already causing mass hysteria. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? You'll never know unless you walk in their shoes. And this one from boot camp to the spotlight teaches you the steps. From trial to triumph and all the tribulations between in tribute. Access all areas. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Further Filming: 'BTS: Break The Silence-The Movie', 'Gaga: Five Foot Two', 'Beyoncé-Homecoming'.
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