CarnivalAskew

a good long musical or music video clip with some talking in it.

i think it would have been as (ir)relevant if the story took place today, using the iraq war as a backdrop instead of the vietnam war. it didn't surprise me to see the civil rights movement was used only as a backdrop: the shot value; good drama.

through out the film young people are depicted as self obsessed. they are in search of them selves, not sure of anything, and quite powerless really. i think it is an arrogant and narrow minded way of looking at young people and what they did those days. it is almost impossible to relate them to the changes that took place around that time. the government policies in relation to education, international relations, and the way US government dealt with its dissenting population all took a hard hit and had to change in order to re-establish control.

another irritating details is the assimilation of the sexual revolution, commune life styles etc.into todays moral and social values.

in the film the young people that are sure of themselves are the radicals, a crazy bunch; terrorists. they all die with the weapon they would like to use on whom they see as the enemy. Not that I don't agree with the way these "radicals" were portraid, but it would have been only fair if the background for their "radicalism" was given. The damage a war causes is not only on the people whom the war is waged upon, but also on the populations of the aggressor.

http://www.chomsky.info/articles/1971----.htm

it is good entertainment, if you don't know anything about history and politics: pretty colours, old songs, boy gets the girl.