We first see Chalamet’s curmudgeonly, withdrawn young Dylan in 1961, as he’s stuffed into the back of a car hurtling towards Manhattan, aged 19. He’s left his midwestern hometown on a pilgrimage: His idol, the pioneering folk singer Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy), is recovering at a psychiatric hospital in nearby New Jersey, and he’s determined to meet him. Before you know it, he does, playing him a simple tune on his guitar—the elegiac “Song to Woody,” which would end up on Dylan’s self-titled debut album just a year later—and blowing him away, along with his visiting friend and fellow luminary, Pete Seeger (Edward Norton).
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