At the beginning of Bob Marley: One Love, we meet the title character (Kingsley Ben-Adir) at a point when he is already a Jamaican national hero. An eternal idealist and tireless promoter of his native island, he is plagued by the pervasive violence fomented by two main rival political camps and their affiliated criminal gangs.
Somewhat naively, Marley dreams of staging a giant concert that will bring all the current enemies under one stage and, with the help of his music, make them bury the hatchet. Before that dream can be realised, violence knocks on the door of his house. His wife and manager are seriously injured in an attack by an armed gang. This takes the blinders off Bob's eyes and he realises that Jamaica is not the country he wants to raise his children in at the moment. They move to Europe, to England, where the dreadlocked boy in the typical knitted hoodie isn't looked upon with much curiosity.
But if a man is a brilliant musician, he will make it in an environment that is capable of putting him in jail just because of his looks. Paradoxically, it is here, on islands that could not be more different from his native one, that his career takes off in a way that rightly earns him a place among the most influential musicians of the twentieth century...
BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE - TECHNICAL DATA
Music: Kris Bowers
Script: Terence Winter, Frank E. Flowers, Zach Baylin, Reinaldo Marcus Green
Cinematography: Robert Elswit
Production: Robert Teitel, Ziggy Marley, Cedella Marley, Rita Marley, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
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