It's All Gone Pete Tong

2004
7.2| 1h30m| R| en
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Its All Gone Pete Tong is a comedy following the tragic life of the legendary Frankie Wilde. The story takes us through Frankie's life from being one of the best DJs alive, through a subsequent battle with a hearing disorder, culminating in his mysterious disappearance from the scene.

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PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.
Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
chaos-rampant Several things they tried to do here. One is a Spinal Tap mockumentary only with a dance DJ in place of the band but it's still the same lovable idiocy of an ego that doesn't know how to be a calculating adult. It's fun, an acoustic device knob goes to 11, but this is undercut by something else they tried to do.This is the other movie here, about growth and "finding yourself". The DJ starts to lose his hearing. This leads to him losing touch with reality and being shut in his own self and you can imagine that all this talks about drugs and battling addiction. There's a demon of addiction as an actual demon in a furry costume that he hallucinates about who shovels cocaine in his face. The more abstract understanding about losing touch with reality yields the broader insight however.Now themes of this sort about characters "finding themselves" are usually ordinary and trite, in a general sense anyway. It seems they can happen in a Richard Gere movie where people are pretty and fate benevolent but not in the murk of actual life. There is some of that here, which makes it ordinary, he meets of course the woman who inspires courage so we can have the return to music in a life-affirming way as return to life, but everything about this romance feels like a sleight-of- hand.As typical as all that is, they did something borderline powerful in the images and notions they wove together. He begins to sense rhythm, an apt image shows him perceiving a flamenco dancer's vibrations in a cup he holds, which lets him once more perceive music but now in a subtler way and this leads to a beautiful metaphor - he 'sees' music around him, how life becomes 'music' once you become mindful, the return to life as alertness about things.I was reminded of a few things while watching. In the West we have Spinoza's god as the whole cosmos, Einstein would later groove on this because it could be spun to mean the cosmos science turns up amazing facts about, retaining some of the awe about the complexity, but we're not scientists in a lab, we can only pick up a book about that. The Chinese have what they call the Tao, similar at a glance, a sense of an all-encompassing natural force that pervades everything. What they mean though is the world that perception can encompass, all of the Taoist meditations, there are many and all of them coordinate flow, breath and perception, aim for this, the cultivation of alert awareness and this is a world partygoers and viewers alike can practice.When he returns to the dancefloor, music is no longer an excuse for ego and spazzing. Listening to the silence he finds more than deafness and void, finds the richness of a world that constantly comes to being and vanishes again every moment, the joy of being able to ride that flow, we see frequencies pass through a laptop screen that he has to match, his feet are strapped to vibrating speakers, into the dancing crowd below.It's not different music that he plays (well, he gives a spectacular performance). The people consume it as aimlessly (or as deeply, why not) as before when he was a clowning fool, they're probably as stoned as before. It's about how he learns to sieve through his own cluttered mind to find music in the nothingness.All this is so good in my eyes it deserves its own film, creative life as learning to be mindful of the resonances. I would have this as the Spinal Tap fun and that by the hand of a master fimmaker.
StrayFeral Mockumentary or documentary, I do not care much. What I saw was a movie about the dark side of the parties. Parent or child, it's good for You to see this. It's a good movie.I personally was into this lifestyle for a short time. Whatever it's shown on the movie is true. I still remember at 9-10am, when we were into a local cafee for an after-party break with some hot milk/chocolate, there were still dancing kids (teenagers) - as a friend explained - on speed. He said, that some people just do not know when to stop.Now, five years after this and two days ago me and my girlfriend were to see Timo Maas live in a massive party here, in Sofia BULGARIA. We used no drugs, even did not drinked much and the music still so cool. (By the way the party was very cool!)What I personally liked about the movie, is that it showed what happens if a person is not careful. Seeing Your kid once with a joint could not be a big deal, but seeing it on few speeds per night is already scary. Decibels are also something very very important thing to keep in mind. My grandmother progressively loses her hearing, due to illness in her childhood. For me music is one of the important things in my life (I am melomaniac of some kind). I personally tried to imagine what is for a person to not experience this wonder of life, called music, and it scares me. I am not saying, that parties would make You deaf - just one should be careful (not to stand only inches in front of the speakers, as I did sometimes in past).Despite all this, the parties are a great way to feel free of everything, if used properly. For me electronic music and the parties means a lot, because they helped me to overcome some difficulties in my life. Unlike some other music genres, electronic music is in general about love and feeling good, about freeing Your mind. Whoever is interested, the DJs showed at beginning of movie are great starting point for newbies into this genre (especially in my opinion - Paul Van Dyk and Tiesto).Stay cool.
siderite The story of a man who gets to the top (money, fame, women, drugs) and then falls hard. But he gets up and does what most people thought impossible. It's a DJ who creates his last album as a complete deaf person. It's even more powerful as it is based on a true story. This man really exists.The film is made almost like a reenactment. With bits played by actors, but trying to be as accurate and unbiased as possible. I thought the lead actor played very well and the direction was good. It is in the same time a hero story as it is an accurate overview of the soulless music industry.It is certainly worth a view, but I don't recommend watching it with grandmothers or anything like that. The title is a bit of a DJ slang thing, it comes from an European DJ radio show. It may have been a bad choice, as it made me think the movie was a fart/martial arts comedy type before I read the reviews.
Eric Scicluna I think its one of the best movies iv'e ever seen, And it together with school of rock are ranked as my favorite 2 movies..Pete tong's Freaking great man ! His Sickness .... WOW ROCKS !I Love movies containing club business, And the tropical Ibiza islands with all that party stuff ... It's great. Then what about the storyline?? The character rocks and even the story based on true... The sound effects deaf from one ear.. That makes you go crazy and feel in in the movie The music makes you go crazyThen WILDE destroying the apparatus and what about drugs ?? The little bear he has making him sniff and smokeThe celebration of the feeling of music stuff and his movements on stage Even the way the people feels when he is introduced.His woman and son ... Maybe love maybe problems. Not enough in my post??? SEE IT Just good good to see... PLS SUPPORT THIS MOVIE