The commitments

A good book or movie that is related to music it has to be good. You may think “if you like music”…..well, yes. But not only because of this, it has to do with the opportunity to understand a new world.

The commitments were those characters that help you to understand a new world. In the book you were inside their wishes and attitudes, we understood why they wanted to be in group. Playing music for themselves and for others, taking out what you have inside and using it in a good way to tell everyone about that reality and society.

The movie showed us the same story but a new perspective. We saw a different way of building the group but with the same purpose, to show their stories. Having and keeping in our minds each of them, every characteristic and those funny situations that made us laugh more than when we read it.

We started reading how much they rehearse and the anxiety when they found out about the first gig. We watched like a smooth process starting to rehearse the songs and having as a consequence a place where they could show this to others.

We read about the affair that all girls were having with Joey the Lips and having fun every time one of the boys found out they were doing some private reunion between them. We just saw the girls fighting at the end for the same guy that it didn’t deserve it.

Finally, we were reading more and more to find out what would happen the song they want to record while in the movie the songs were changed and it was so fast how they split out that we didn’t feel the same disappointed that we felt as we read it in the book.