I am obsessed with Hamilton. I spent the $7 to get Disney +. Already I have watched it 3 times, and plan on more.
Hamilton; a Metaphor for life
It’s uncanny to me that a book, a piece of music, a movie, a person can come into your life at the exact moment that you need it to. Hamilton has done that for me. It’s a meditation on death and what’s left behind. The ticking clock of mortality and leaving a legacy. Maybe there is a fine line between good and evil. And that line gets crossed multiple times in your lifetime.
Layers and Complexity
Aside from all that, it is dazzling and completely entertaining. It knocks it out of the park. I have never seen a show that encompasses all this. The soundtrack, the choreography…. I keep learning more and more every time I watch it. There are so many layers, and I am amazed at the complexity of this show. For example today I just read about the foreshadowing of “the Bullet”. And the musicality – omg! Each song in this show is a theater onto itself. Am I gushing yet??? Breathtaking lines – like in “Satisfied”, Songs so amazingly and beautifully sung like “Helpless”. And amidst all this brilliance there is a major lesson on American History; which made me delve into the times of Alexander Hamilton, his contemporaries, and the real birth of our Nation.
In many ways I find myself relating to Aaron Burr. A smart, good man who just wanted more…who watched a scruffy upstart surpass him. It seemed to be more than he could bear. I love his advice to Hamilton… Talk Less – Smile More. He narrates the tale of Hamilton – I felt his frustration dramatically mount as he tried to fulfill and write his own legacy. As he said – he is remembered not for his mind, his intelligence , – but – as a power seeking villain who is forever infamous for his one very horrible deed… a deed that almost seemed to have been predestined from his first meeting with Hamilton. He is the very fine line between good and evil.