My take on Freddie Mercurys Bohemian Rhapsody
Freddie opens asking if this is just real life or fantasy….being caught in a landslide…there is no escape from reality.
Talking about his sudden rise to fame and fortune in the mid 70s. The big BUT…reality …that is his personal problems are still there.
He appeals to his fans…to open their eyes…to see who he really is….a poor boy…not in poverty,but growing up in the 1950s having to hide the fact he was gay from the whole world…not wanting sympathy…just to be accepted for what he was…easy come, easy go…high and low.
No one can control the wind…or a lot of circumstances in life….he claims it did’nt really matter to him but it did. Freddie says he killed a man by putting a gun to his head…BUT…he was talking about himself contracting the AIDs virus…chilling looking into the future…. at the height of his fame…still young …life had just begun but he has gone and thrown it all away.
He is telling his family,friends,and fans that he did not mean to give them sorrow through his death…asking them to carry on as if nothing really matters…but it did …to his fans.
It is really chilling how he seemed to look into the future in 1975 to his late 1980s self dying of AIDs. His time has come to die …shivering down his spine…his body aching all the time…He says his goodbyes to his family, friends and fans..to face his death…talking about the wind blowing..again circumstances beyond his control…in the early 80s AIDs many in the Gay community were not aware of AIDs…of course he doesn’t want to die…still far too young. He feels so sick he wishes he was not born at all.
Like the character Tom Hanks played in the 1990s movie “Streets of Philidelphia”….he gets comfort from listening to opera.
Freddie is just a silhouetto of man caught up in a violent storm beyond his control…this reflects the struggles of the medical staff, fighting to save him from the virus….
Again growing up in the 1950s..knowing he was gay and feeling nobody loved him…his family knowing they had a son who was different…worried about what people would think and say…a poor family. The doctors fighting to save his life from the monstrosity of the AIDs virus. Despite that Freddie feels his sickness is a devil set aside for him by Beelzebub.
He then talks about the people who judge him…do you think you can stone me and spit in my eye….and the lover who gave him the virus….so you think you can love me and leave me to die…Freddie talks about getting out of this life…at the end nothing really matters, because for him it is all over.
Even after he died many fans did not know he was gay.
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