Sure, this film was flashy and glitzy and showy and larger than life...but so was
Elvis. This fear-driven world did not know - especially at that time - how to deal wth such an untarnished, untamed by society genius, and he most definitely paid for it, on all levels. All he wanted was to express himself, the way he was born to do. That freedom of spirit threatened and upset a lot of fearful people. How he managed to be true to himself that long is a miracle in itself. And Austin Butler's transcentental performance is in itself a second miracle. A transcendant film, handled in a perfectly subversive way.
