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I'd seen this film in 1969 when it first came out. As years passed, I found it difficult to remember what the film was about. In a word: Vietnam. More specifically: the Hippie peace movement. A super-power (rather than great power) US inspired its teenage & young adult generation to create a nonviolent counter-culture because they literally hated war & the lifestyles of the rich, ruling & violent US 'leaders'. (Sound familiar now, near the end of 2008?) Right after the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy & Martin Luther King, Jr., & during the obvious failures of the Vietnam War, a generation of long haired-Hippies with "flower-power" & acoustic guitars, with home-spun songs about loving each other, evolved in reaction to US war mongering anti-Asian supremacism. Arlo Guthrie, the son of the famous singer-songwriter, Woody Guthrie, had an experience with the US military that inspired this 18 minute song, that remains his greatest hit. Arlo was arrested to littering. When he went to register for the draft, the US military's form asked if he'd ever been arrested. Having been arrested disqualified Arlo for military service. Though this film is about a small group of Hippies who buy a church to live in, & then a restaurant for Alice, the wife of the gatherer of the flock, from which to sell her delicious food, the background is about a social culture change due to an excess of US governmental domineering & violence. Arlo Guthrie is the main troubadour who brings the "family" together through his music, like his real & on-screen father, who in the picture is dying, had done. Appearances by social changers by way of music, like Pete Seeger, join with Guthrie to make lasting political statements through their music about anti-war, group protest & social change. History seems to be repeating itself from 1969 to 2008. Because the older people won't love their neighbors & make them fear us instead; because the peoplein power won't negotiate with our neighboring countries & must domineer them instead; because the controlling rich few want to get richer by fighting & love war instead peace (though they fein otherwise). Late in November 2008, a new generation is posed to take control of power, just like younger people did in the late 60's, when violence by those in power over the US government got way heavy handed & didn't represent the true will of the American public. We call it change now. Back in the 1960's even the Beatles called it a "revolution." That's what this movie is about. It speaks to us now just like it did back when. Listen~Read full review
Arlo is pretty great and Alice’s Restaurant celebrated it’s 50th anniversary. Good times!
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