Love this crazy movie!

  • dandelion
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    2 days ago

    It’s not a good film, but it’s wacky in a 70s hippie-exploitation kind of way. If you start it, you’ll get a sense pretty quickly of whether you have the patience or not.

    EDIT: my essay was a response to film critics at the time and a re-evaluation of the film from a contemporary context; I didn’t defend the film as much as I defended the lofty themes of the film, esp. as I feel we have become more cynical and pessimistic, and the idealism of the film (and of the film’s cultural moment, more broadly) was maybe not as much of a bad thing as critics felt it was at the time. Though I did write this essay many years ago, so it’s a fuzzy memory at this point.