Well, what's the duty of an artist in times of upheaval? This is the interesting and pressing question that the movie asks (and everyone should talk about it).
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The extra spicy layer of this film, to me, is that I sympathize the impulse to stop Dylan from going electric and leaving folk. Maybe a folk movement WITH Dylan or a folk movement that wasn't partially hijacked by Dylan's move to rock and roll would have influenced politics for the better.
Last note is that my favorite part of Timmy's performance + the script was showing again and again that Dylan despised categorization. He couldn't consider himself a traitor to folk, because he never identified as a folk musician. He just wanted to make the best music he could.
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