Fiction

Rating: 4/10 (26 July 2019)

I lived in Los Angeles in 1969. The counterculture, sexual revolution, and drug experimentation were in it's early stages. There was nothing self concious about that time or that place that said wow look at us except maybe a Mama and Pappas song. California was half conservative and everyone respected law and order and unless you had long hair and didn't want to get a regular job you fantasized about being a rock star or a movie star until you realized you had to get a job. It's obvious Tarantino wasn't there and knows nothing about it. In fact Tarantino is projecting his current postdated worldview and using his knowlege of the 1960s to create a self conscious movie that says 'look at me I'm Quentin Tarantino - look at the movie I've made'. Should you see this movie? Have twelve dollars and bored? Better yet read books about Hollywood. Few books have been written about Hollywood in the 60s. Most of them were written about before the 1960s.