Natalie

🖤 Depeche Mode: M (with spoilers) I had been waiting on pins and needles for the release of Depeche Mode: M since the day I secured my tickets to see my favorite band on the big screen. I don’t normally do things like this, but something compelled me to buy two sets of tickets for the same day at different theaters, just in case. A few days before the release I get an email from AMC telling me that for some unforeseen reason, maintenance needed to be done at the theater and my showing was CANCELLED 😳. I learned a valuable lesson through this experience - Always have a plan B. The other theater I had tickets for was sold out, so that extra pair saved me😅 Film day: As I made my way through a sea of devotees dressed in black to find my seat, I could feel the excitement and anticipation building. At the start of the movie, the fans broke out in cheers as the moment we had all been waiting for had finally arrived. Watching the film, I was flooded with memories of that wonderful time when so many of us followed DM night after night to experience the Memento Mori Tour. That celebration, full of energy and emotion with fans singing along and showing the boys our love and appreciation, felt like it was just yesterday. This film brought me back to all the special moments of the tour. The cinematography was 👌 especially the center stage shots and I loved the experimental visuals in which both Dave and Martin appeared to perform from small glass enclosures. But there was one moment that completely took my breath away, the printer scene. My throat felt tight and my eyes began to well up. Andy’s image slowly emerging from a printer right before the performance of WIME followed by fans holding a copy of that print out 😭 did me in. It was an intensely moving scene. Thank you to Fernando Frias for capturing not only the amazing music and performances but the poetry woven into MM. I can’t wait to watch this film again and again and travel back to that special place in time which was the Memento Mori Tour 🖤