Something To Inspire

Rating: 9/10 (2 January 2012)

The USA must have felt the time after two wars the same as Europe, especially after intervening. A time to rebuild, to count blessings, to try what is valued and value what is tried. Infrastructure for everybody, from the interior house decorations to the exterior career structures. Good old cronies not excluded. The setting for a republican life I guess. If the structures are a little to tight, there are hardly ways out except for Paris and getting knocked up by a friend. Or to get sent to a shrink for whom the raise would pay too.
A great excuse for the arrival of the 60s and the birth of the new world-view, which would primarily be the overthrow of all values keeping this life together: God, Truth, self and reality. Beautiful styles and architectures do not count, when the rhythm of returning wars seems to stop, we simply continue on the Revolutionary Road by blowing ourselves up. Is this of all times? No this is typically 50s with a huge after-burn till our days. But very good that these reviews are created at all.
We do want to go back in time, there has never been so much retro as today, especially in films and on TV. Mad Men, Pan Am, *series* about these times. Clearly there is something we did not get over, in spite of all the philosophers accounting for what happened and why we lost what we did, telling us otherwise (Derrida, Zizek). Some will agree, in NY and on liberal corners. Many will feel there still is something that was good about those times that these films and their scriptwriters have left out, something which will continue to inspire the creation of these films.