One of the best movies that I have seen recently was "Bohemian Rhapsody" which was about the band Queen. The movie was a biopic which is a biography in movie form. Obviously, it is tough to get a whole biography of a rock bands rise to fame (especially Mercury's) in just a little over 2 hours, so the development was fast-paced and sometime just fast-forwarded to the key highlights. There were parts when it seemed like some of the songs just clicked immediately when they were working on creating them and maybe didn't capture the time and dedication for some of their bigger songs such as "We Will Rock You" and "Another One Bites the Dust". One of the songs that the film captured the creation of was "Bohemian Rhapsody" which arguably Queen's most well-known song.

I am not the biggest Queen fan, but I have listened to most of their popular songs before, and since seeing this there are some songs by them that were featured that I can't get enough of. There were points throughout the movie that I wanted to sing along with the songs, but I had to restrain myself because I was in a packed theatre in public, also I think my brother would have died of embarrassment sitting next to me.

Rami Malek, the actor that played Freddie Mercury, did an excellent job in this film and during the performances it felt like I was actually seeing Freddie Mercury up on stage. He fit into the role extremely well and it definitely drew me in.

The movie was mainly focused on the life of the lead singer Freddie Mercury over the rest of the band, but his story was probably the most thrilling to tell. It started by showing him working at an airport and visiting a club where he approached the band about joining them and showed them his amazing singing talent (even after they made a rude comment about the size of his teeth). It was pretty ironic that the previous lead singer left because he was tired of them playing at extremely small clubs and didn't see them progressing or going anywhere. Some of the small details were pretty fascinating, the first time that Freddie performed with the band the mic stand wouldn't adjust or let the microphone come out, so after struggling with it for a little Freddie just decided to hold the whole mic stand when he sang, which is what he did when he performed in real life. The film brought the band's rise to fame pretty quickly, and it was interesting to watch Freddie change throughout the film.

There was a lot of drama that was associated with Freddie, dealing with his sexuality and falling deeper into his drug and alcohol problem, as well as deciding to leave the band to go solo which further isolated him from people who truly cared about him. The ending brought the whole story together with Mercury deciding to reunite with the band to perform at Live Aid, one of his last performances ever after being diagnosed with AIDS.

I always love how classic rock used real instruments, it makes me wish that I could be able to play the piano or guitar along with the songs. I used to play piano when I was younger but didn't really enjoy it, plus it was forced on me, so I didn't practice much or look forward to lessons. Musical instruments, like most other things, require a lot of work in order to be able to play songs, especially songs that are played by professional bands since their instruments are their livelihood.

I would highly recommend this movie even to the recreational or moderate fan of Queen, but even if you're not a fan of their music I would encourage you to give this biopic a try, it has other themes which many can relate to.