Two Geeks And A Git Classic Movie Reviews

As cinema developed, as a medium and as an art, it went through periods of significant change, both in form and content. The late 60s was one of the most drastic turning points, as the free love movement, the hippie movement, and the anti-war movement all dovetailed together, creating what film scholars refer to as the "counter-culture movement" in film. The style, stories, and structure of the stories being told on the big screen started rejecting traditional Hollywood in order to craft new narratives, tales of the youth of the day and what their lives were like, that reflected their experiences living in the America they'd inherited from their parents, whose culture they soundly rejected. And the poster-child of counter-culture films arrived in 1967, an examination of the ennui experienced by those coming out of college and looking ahead at their futures with bleak and detached hearts and minds as they realized that they wanted something different than their parents had, but not knowing what that might be o