Adding my thoughts to the mix of excellent reviews here because I have not seen any touch on this directly.
I understand the movie was mainly unscripted but it is still one of his masterpieces. It is not his best work but one I would imagine that he had a lot of fun making and directing. The camera work is of course artwork in itself.
The movie is largely all over the place but shows his feelings about consumerism, war, especially the Vietnam war, the military-industrial complex that was developing not just in the US but in other nations as well. Add to that birth control, education, capitalism, socialism, communism, and revolution.
The movie uses the lives of young couples and the feeling they have about love, life, and their careers and future as a platform but it shows importantly how the indifference of some youth about things relevant to their life can come back to haunt them.
More importantly near the end it shows how a pollster by making polls is not capturing the opinions from others but is actually influencing others and society by the questions presented. A la Facebook, Twitter, and our modern social platforms and how others are using those same platforms to influence society today.
A movie everyone over 16 should see.
I understand the movie was mainly unscripted but it is still one of his masterpieces. It is not his best work but one I would imagine that he had a lot of fun making and directing. The camera work is of course artwork in itself.
The movie is largely all over the place but shows his feelings about consumerism, war, especially the Vietnam war, the military-industrial complex that was developing not just in the US but in other nations as well. Add to that birth control, education, capitalism, socialism, communism, and revolution.
The movie uses the lives of young couples and the feeling they have about love, life, and their careers and future as a platform but it shows importantly how the indifference of some youth about things relevant to their life can come back to haunt them.
More importantly near the end it shows how a pollster by making polls is not capturing the opinions from others but is actually influencing others and society by the questions presented. A la Facebook, Twitter, and our modern social platforms and how others are using those same platforms to influence society today.
A movie everyone over 16 should see.