Like good wine... Well, uh, that's just your opinion man...

Rating: 10/10 (26 April 2006)

The Dude Abides... See it more than once; it grows on you. It is mythical. First time I saw it, I was not so impressed, others say this also happens to them, but try it again and something unusual will take shape in you. It is like the proverbial "good wine" kind of thing. With age it gets better and better. And you gotta check out the Lebowski Fest web site - a whole community of "Little Urban Achievers" with T-shirts, bumper stickers, Lebowski Fests. This is a classic movie that can "gently like water cracking stone," change the consciousness of the world (I know...,that seems pretty far out... so sue me!) - Yo, abusive world leaders, (and you know who you are...), be warned! - This is a subversive film - you better ban it or classify it and lock it away before your populations learn to relax and enjoy life! You might think it is only about a stoner anti-hero hero, and it is to some extend, but it is also about ordinary people dealing with stuff they ain't prepared for - being a bigger person than you think you are - handling the messy stuff life throws at you without shutting down and becoming rigid. It is about finding your inner-dude... And maybe, just maybe, this particular movie is growing in popularity at this particular time because of the way things are - the pathetic and clueless leaders we have - the direction they are taking us... yuk! - our seeming inability to do anything about it - the endless frustrations of our menu driven impersonal telephone world - and maybe there is also some nostalgia for the 60's and 70's, when for a brief shining moment, there was a sense of real life happening, and a sense of optimism blooming - that is missing today - "well, uh, that's just your opinion man..."