To compare today's turbulent times unfavorably to the wonderful "Easy Rider" era is patently absurd. If the author of the film's synopsis had bothered to actually watch that movie, it should have been clear that the good old days were actually pretty crappy: Easy Rider ends with a couple of hippie-hating rural types (not all that much different from today's Trump worshippers) slaughtering the two free-spirited motorcyclists played by Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda. It wasn't much of a movie in the first place, but it sure didn't depict a world of peace, harmony and good will toward men. In fact, it more or less seems like that era -- including the right-wing "America Love It or Leave It" nastiness that dogged protestors of the Vietnam War in the 70s -- was setting the stage for the hot mess we're in today. So if the premise of the film is that things used to be great but they suddenly went bad, this "documentary" can't be worth watching. If you take your patriotic blinders off, America has a pretty dark history which continues to haunt its citizens to this day. I sure hope we can move past our troubles into brighter days. But creating a not-very-persuasive film that essentially reminisces about good times that were actually not good at all is not the way to accomplish that.
Review of We Blew It
