taking woodstock
Over the weekend, Gerry and I went with some friends to see the movie Taking Woodstock. It stays away from the obvious story of the Woodstock concerts and artists, and instead looks behind the scenes at its effects on the families of White Creek, New York -- and one family in particular.
I appreciated the camera work, as well as an editing style that occasionally amplified the feeling of a hectic scene by splitting it out into multiple "boxes" on the screen. Nicely done!
A lot of drug use was portrayed -- hello, it's Woodstock -- as well as overdone doses of nudity. Hippies skinny-dipping in the pond, or streaking across a muddy field, are somewhat to be expected. But the film went beyond that with a kookoo theatre troop who lived in the main character's barn, seeming to exist for the sole purpose of jarring the audience awake from time to time by stripping off everything and dancing around quoting various playwrites. Bizzare. Unimportant to the story. Over the top.
Gerry and I both commented that the movie was far more interesting while we were watching it than afterward. It fades from the memory quickly.
I appreciated the camera work, as well as an editing style that occasionally amplified the feeling of a hectic scene by splitting it out into multiple "boxes" on the screen. Nicely done!
A lot of drug use was portrayed -- hello, it's Woodstock -- as well as overdone doses of nudity. Hippies skinny-dipping in the pond, or streaking across a muddy field, are somewhat to be expected. But the film went beyond that with a kookoo theatre troop who lived in the main character's barn, seeming to exist for the sole purpose of jarring the audience awake from time to time by stripping off everything and dancing around quoting various playwrites. Bizzare. Unimportant to the story. Over the top.
Gerry and I both commented that the movie was far more interesting while we were watching it than afterward. It fades from the memory quickly.