"Man on the Run is comprised of archive film, photos and audio recordings of McCartney and his late wife, Linda, his children and others. Some of McCartney's overlaid commentary seems to be new, and some pre-existing. The film tracks his tense, complicated, fruitful career from the endgame of the Beatles in 1969 to the definitive demise of his next band Wings in 1981,"
"(The film does, once again, show us that startlingly strange and casual-seeming interview McCartney gave after Lennon's shooting, his shock resulting in an apparently cold attitude but what he may really have been thinking is something else not explored here in detail.) When the Beatles broke up, McCartney appeared to be in retreat from the world, winding up in rural Scotland with his wife and children working on music in a desultory way, but also amassing new songs on his four-track tape recorder."
Man on the Run uses archive film, photos and audio recordings of Paul McCartney, his late wife Linda, his children and associates, with overlaid McCartney commentary mixing new and pre-existing material. The narrative traces McCartney's tense, complicated and productive career from the Beatles' end in 1969 to Wings' demise in 1981, shortly after John Lennon's death. The film shows McCartney retreating to rural Scotland, writing on a four-track tape recorder, and releasing the poorly received Ram, whose perceived slights toward Lennon increased acrimony. It contrasts Lennon's New York counterculture phase with McCartney's uncool pop experiments and notes Band on the Run's eccentric front-cover collaborators.
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