The Crumbling Legacy of the Hippie Movement.
Outside of the music, I’m not sure what people from the 60s left behind for us to enjoy.
American Film Institute’s Ranking: #36/100
Awards: Nominated for seven winning three including Best Picture and Director.
My Rating:
The hippie movement must have been one hell of a drug.
The seminal works of cinema from this time period which reached historically significant status play as complete messes today. The storylines are disjointed, the desire to give a middle-finger to the man supersedes everything else, and virtue-signaling tramples any legitimacy of authenticity. This last one is particular paradoxical as the movement’s ostensibly purpose was to reveal some truer and more pure self.
It’s a shame, too, with Midnight Cowboy. Even within the typical moral morass, Voigt and Hoffman both put on such good performances that by the end we somehow care what happens to these two, even though the previous two hours is a mess.
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