Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.
I would say there is because of the way he treats Freddie Mercury. It's not physical abuse, but mental and emotional. He pressures him to do stuff and makes him lose contact with his friends and family. He takes Freddie away from what makes him happy, and he goes into a depression. It's abuse, but not physical.
Paul tries to convince Freddie that he has forgotten important things that Paul actually never mentioned to him. Paul also extensively manipulates Freddie, lies to him, and withholds information from him.
While Freddie plays an opera record, he suddenly slams his hand on a table at a surge of music. After Queen leaves their label, something is suddenly thrown through the window and the glass shatters. There are sometimes loud surges in songs playing.
i wouldn’t call it vomiting, but freddie does cough blood into a tissue (toward the end of the movie) and so if you’re sensitive to that, i recommend looking away when he brings the tissue to his mouth. i’m horribly emetophobic and it didn’t bother me, so it should be fine.
During a interview, all the reporters suddenly starts asking invasive questions that seems to be implied to be Freddie's owns fear and anxieties come to life metaphorically. The camera effects also starts getting really blurry and the camera work gets very unhinged during this.
There are bright flashing lights during concerts. After a concert, Paul stands next to a pinball machine, the lights of which immediately flicker brightly.
The band makes a music video where they're all in drag and then there's a scene of them discussing public reception, including Freddie complaining about man in dress jokes from the public and media
Queer people are in general portrayed as lurid, over-sexualized and arguably even villainous. Freddie being part of the gay nightclub scene is treated as his lowest moment, and his relationship to men is portrayed as a bad, corrupting force.
While some of the details of Mercury’s life are pretty sanitized ,you can still see some glimpses in the “Another One Bites The Dust” montage gives us a brief look into gay clubs with “leather daddies”
It depends how you look at it. It’s Freddie’s story, so naturally the ending is Freddie passing away, but it allows his legacy to live on & the movie itself doesn’t show Freddie’s death. I would say it ends on a happy note, however it is kinda bittersweet.