I know, totally. I saw it just last Friday.
I personally hold Scott Walker in such high esteem, the
highest, that I find it really difficult to talk about him at all. Suffice to say, some songs in the film are so powerful, 'Big Louise' and 'Sleepwalkers Woman' for example, that I felt very awkward sat in a cinema with people sat around me (okay, there was only a few). Still, I just wanted to crumple up. The part with him performing 'Rosary' live? Everyone just
craned their head back due to the force of his voice and the song. Immense.
Anybody who does anything creative, and/or creates any kind of artwork: Invariably you end up sat there, hunched over a mixing desk, looking at the muddy paint you just mixed, or become aware that you're all alone in a darkroom, whatever-just for a moment you might forget why you're making the effort. It seems futile, you're broke, nobody really gives a shit. Play one song by Scott Walker, just one, and immediately it all comes back to you, why you
need to do it, what you can reveal to yourself and how you can share it with others. For real, he's that good. No peers, none whatsoever.
