The Strawberry Statement

Year:	1970
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Drama, Romance
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	7.0 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	2 Have Seen


Director	Stuart Hagmann
Selected Cast	Bruce Davison as Simon
	Kim Darby as Linda
	Bud Cort as Elliot - Coxswain
	Bob Balaban as Elliot - Organizer
	Jeannie Berlin as Girl with Clipboard

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The Strawberry Statement - Warner Home Video - USA (2012)

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Twistin 18th Nov 2015		Rated 7/10 Your classic hippie / college student / protest film with a bit of romance to lighten the load. I expected the worst because I hate when political ideals appear like propaganda to manipulate the viewer, to gain sympathies, etc. To summarize, you follow along with our San Francisco student protagonist, Simon (Bruce Davison), who takes a bouncy interest in some protesting students, which escalates because he wants to get into the sack with cute & perky Linda (Kim Darby). She is a part of the micro-revolution, staging a sit-in at an administrative office to protest a military building planned for the campus. I generally liked the casual pace of the film and didn't even much mind when the fuzz arrive for the climactic showdown, but it gets goofier as it goes until you just have to roll your eyes. It's like getting to sit through a nightmare in the brain of Neil Young. If you have the objectivity to see this for what it is, you'll know that incidents like Kent State were the fault of the National Guard AND the students. Sit-ins, love-ins, and singing "Give Peace a Chance" are every bit as futile as soldiers shooting hippie kids. I'd like to think that was what this film was attempting to enunciate, but either way, it should be crystal clear today. Even if you can't read between the celluloid lines, look at Washington D.C. where all those hippies ended up, very much a part of the corrupt system while pretending to have their roots in their old ideals. That's the real unhappy ending. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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