The Strawberry Statement - Stuart Hagmann |
A
film of 1970 on the 1968-'69 events, set in the center
of the Sixties, ie at Berkeley. Simon (he) is
a student disengaged, he is part of a rowing team and he trains hard, while
having the look of a typical intellectual, round glasses as Roger Mc
Guinn and medium-length blond hair. In universities, it begins the
protest of 1968, his room-mate begins to become aware of the moment
before him, which remains an outside observer and skeptical at first
meetings. Then he knows Linda (her), engaged to another man (but is far
away or something like that) and so is the spring for an increasing
commitment, to participate in occupation, take an active role in the
famous long final sequence of the passive resistance against the violent
eviction of the faculty run by the San Francisco police. |
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The Soundtrack |
The soundtrack coincides with the real soundtrack of those
years, and contains some of the most significant songs of the late 60s,
mainly by West Coast musicians, used
both as a voiceover, either directly in the movie (the scene in the record
store in which he and she listen to a song using the same headphones).
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Songs About Revolution |
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Also in this
movie is present a sort of anthem of '68, "Something In The Air", a song
of a group not very well known, Thunderclap
Newman, where they spoke of revolution, but not taking
distances by it, as in the famous song
Revolution of The Beatles,
published only two years before. The other big "subversives", The Jefferson Airplane, for a while spoke only of "travels" in parallel worlds, apparently with some synthetic help (see their classic '67 White Rabbit, inspired by "Alice in Wonderland" ) then came to sing their revolution with Volunteers (included in the homonymous album of '69, published in November, then a few months after their successful participation in Woodstock) and even in the most radical way a few years later, in '71, when it were already The Jefferson Starship, with Blows Against Empire. |
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