As far as I can remember, BONNIE AND CLYDE, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, EASY RIDER and THE GRADUATE were well received in my Puerto Rico, but not really understood; their anti-establishment attitude puzzled my fellow Puerto Ricans.
Please tell me: what did my compatriots and I fail to understand? The hippies didn't make much of an impact in Puerto Rico.
God is subtle, but He is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)
The assassination of President Kennedy and the proliferation of the Vietnam war fractured this country from which it has never recovered. We're still feeling the reverberations from these events. This us against them mentality is the power that lays behind these movies and if you don't get it it's only because you're point of view is on the opposite side of the filmmakers. Bonnie and Clyde are glamourized to the point of falsification that would make historians laugh or get angry, but that it's target audience would see themselves in this bored, misunderstood couple. It's no wonder the older film critics found this film distasteful and unpleasant upon its release. But because it's been made by such artistically and technically talented people the story is swept up and given a legitimacy it doesn't merit.
shareJFK has been dead for more than 52 years; why don't Americans accept that fact and move on? The USA got over the deaths of WH Harrison, Taylor, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Harding, and FDR; why can't it do the same with someone who has been dead for more than half a century?
God is subtle, but He is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)
Because you fool, there are people who were affected by it who are still alive.
I was nine y/o in 1963, yet don't obsess over it. Living in the past is never a good idea.
God is subtle, but He is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)
The deaths of all the Presidents who died in office were deeply felt; those of Lincoln and FDR were especially painful because of the dramatic circumstances in which they occurred. Nevertheless the American people got over them and moved on; the same should apply to JFK.
God is subtle, but He is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)