Strawberry Statement

The phone rings in the college presidents office. A coed, one of many students in the room, picks up. Were sorry, the president will not be in today. The university is under new management. Set to anthemic songs of the time, The Strawberry Statement is both about and from the era of protests that swept campuses in the 1960s and 70s. Bruce Davison plays Simon, an athlete drawn to the excitement of a demonstration, to a girl (Kim Darby) he meets and ultimately, to the cause. The film ends with a police-and-National Guard raid on protesters that gave viewers of the day a knowing unease: student demonstrators had been shot some fatally -- at Kent State University and Jackson State College in the month prior to the films release.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 9 April, 2012