George Harrison's dearest love in life, Olivia, sums it up in a very fine and simple way in the end of this film, that isn't an ordinary documentary about a famous pop rock star. Neither was he an ordinary star, if there is any, but still he saw himself as an ordinary man, or he wanted to be just that. It's not in the film but Harrison once said that if he wasn't a Beatle, he'd probably just be a regular guy. As much as he never got to be that, this is what made much of his confidence and down to earth attitude, being straight forward and truthful, but still making the ones surrounding him feel relaxed.
That really is what this film is about, not so much about the great and famous George Harrison, but what he tried to live, be and give. He had very much to give, of love, wisdom and perspective. And in the film it is presented in a very balanced way that he had this formidable energy that had been build up through the years with the Beatles, and that he spent the rest of his life searching how to use this energy for the better of himself and all those he loved. It is simple and there is no particular magic to it.
I once in my very younger years was asked who I like most of John Lennon and Paul McCartney - and I replied George Harrison. The band could not have been the same without him.
Living In A Material World tries to communicate what most concerned this man from Liverpool, who somehow in a special moment of history got to materialize the Great Energy, and make it personal, for the benefit of millions of people. I can't really see it being made any better.
That really is what this film is about, not so much about the great and famous George Harrison, but what he tried to live, be and give. He had very much to give, of love, wisdom and perspective. And in the film it is presented in a very balanced way that he had this formidable energy that had been build up through the years with the Beatles, and that he spent the rest of his life searching how to use this energy for the better of himself and all those he loved. It is simple and there is no particular magic to it.
I once in my very younger years was asked who I like most of John Lennon and Paul McCartney - and I replied George Harrison. The band could not have been the same without him.
Living In A Material World tries to communicate what most concerned this man from Liverpool, who somehow in a special moment of history got to materialize the Great Energy, and make it personal, for the benefit of millions of people. I can't really see it being made any better.