So So
Historically relevant, but slow, boring and disappointing. Shame, because this is a such a great topic. The film producers squandered a terrific opportunity due to poor editing. Very slow-paced.
This wasn't very interesting and it could have been!
The editors of this documentary made some odd choices about the music videos they chose to include in this somewhat boring film, namely some one-hit wonders mixed in with The Weavers, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, etc., which was too bad and puzzling. Some of the interviewees lost all credibility with me, especially the guy who said that the Village was responsible for a lot of the momentum behind the civil rights movement, the feminist movement and the anti-war movement. This statement was overblown, even for a baby boomer lost in his hazy, pot-smoke-tinged reveries of the past, especially given his white man privilege. Seriously, bro? Step down, son, shut up and do some reading. Um, Rosa Parks? Betty Friedan? I believe that Elizabeth Cady Stanton died in 1902, so I don't think she was hanging out in the Village in the '60s. Also, the SDS was founded in Ann Arbor. These people clearly suffer from San Francisco Bay Area-special-snowflake disease and I say that with love as a native.
Really enjoyed it!!!
Loved the history, the music, loved the accuracy of the information, the historical black and white footage, loved it all...
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