If you are a child of the sixties, see this movie.

Rating: 10/10 (1 October 2007)

I wrote in the present tense, because you still have to be in touch with that child to enjoy this movie. Julie Traymor has really captured the feel of that decade with this production. To those youngsters who don't get it, I cannot apologize, because, to quote Walter Cronkite, "That's the way it was." I wondered at one point if Ms. Traymor had been one of my college girlfriends. It seemed she was writing the movie about me. My wife kept elbowing me at points in the film where we had been together in a particular scene. It was an amazing journey; it was written about my youth, and it captured the mixture of ecstasy and agony that was the 1960s.
Obviously the movie has its flaws. Some of them are part of the story, however. The 1960s were a flawed decade. To those of us who remember, it is a time we look back on with both a yearning and a dread. The remarkable thing is how well the movie recreates both, and all at the same time. If you want to remember, go see it. If you want to take a stab at understanding the sixties, then go see it too, but pay attention because it's a complicated lesson.