Film Journal 2023: Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

Film Journal 2023: Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
Directed by Sam Wrench

If you are not a fan of Taylor and swifties drive you nuts, probably not something you want to invest in. For fans without the means and opportunity to see this tour live, this is a great way to experience it.

I’d say from the comfort of your seats, but a decent portion of my sold out screening filled the floor between the seats and the screen. The energy and excitement was undeniable.

I’m not sure if this is a sttength or a weakness of this on screen format. It’s a long haul, to be sure, and it runs the full sweep of Taylor Swifts albums. More importantly, the eras span different iterations of Swifts music. Given the diversity of my crowd when it came to age,.lengthy stretches of folklore and evermore don’t exactly inspire the same fervor for tween enthusiasts as Red and 1989. For some of us older ones, they were the highlights. The show is not structured chronologically, so that allowed her to arrange the eras in a way that interpersersed the crowd pleasers, but even then the younger ones in my showing were certainly stretched to their limits. That last hour stretch was an exercise in stamina for me.

As I often say though, it would seem strange to say that too much concert is ever a bad thing. Too much of a bad concert is a bad thing, and the Eras tour is nothing less than a spectacle. The stage production was truly awe inspiring. The number of costume changes maybe even more so. I think it’s also great that my theater showing did a preamble that helped set the stage for how to experience the show. Without that I feel like there could have been some uncertainty and frustration, and the theater gave full permission to sing along, to occupy the floor space and have our phones out. Or as they summarized it- have some fun. And this was definitely a big part of what makes this on screen experience work.