Sunday, October 01, 2006

The U.S. vs. John Lennon

My favorite thing about this movie was watching the development of John from a goofy boy musician into a "dangerous" anti-war activist. There are obvious parallels drawn between the Nixon administration and Vietnam and today's administration and Iraq. As the movie progresses, you feel more and more angry that we are being lied to and we're being told that this war will "solve" problems, but instead of being angered into action, we're left feeling lost without a leader to inspire us to take to the streets. We are in a different time, John's dead, but we can't blame that for our silence.

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