But pretending to be someone he’s not is excruciating and starts to erode both his self respect and his relationships with those around him. Patel’s expressive face switches between uncertainty, guilt, and anguish as he struggles to keep up the façade of brilliant songwriter. You don’t have to try very hard to figure out what the main message of this movie is: it’s all about honesty, integrity, and the price of success. His conscience is tearing him apart and it looks like he’s lost the girl he loves. When he performs their songs, Jack becomes a superstar.
Apparently, he’s now the only person in the world who remembers The Beatles. Jack wakes up in the hospital with a bruised face, two missing teeth, and what he soon discovers is the opportunity of a lifetime. But Jack’s world changes when a power outage sweeps the globe and he gets hit by a bus. His best efforts are met with polite disinterest. The former teacher works part-time in a big box warehouse store so he can write songs and perform at the venues arranged by his devoted best friend and manager, Ellie (Lily James). Jack has taken a long and winding road to instant success. And Jack isn’t sure if he can swallow it, however badly he might want it. Celebrity agent Debra (Kate McKinnon) is trying to sign up the latest musical phenom, Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) by offering him “the great and glorious poisoned chalice of money and fame.” That chalice is even more toxic than Debra realizes: it comes with a heaping dose of guilt and deceit.
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