Showing posts with label big chill. Show all posts
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Friday, April 1, 2011

Weekend Music Chill

Convinced the family to go all baby-boomer with me this week; so we watched The Big Chill. There's a line in the movie where they question what all of the protests of the 60s were really about. The Glen Close character says "I hate to think it was all just...fashion." My answer, is that, in fact, it was. Too bad. I really liked the movie, because ultimately these people make their peace with modernity. Yeah, there was some stupidity as well, like the husband sharing. But overall, I think the movie exposes the baby boomers for who they were, while showing that they had made peace with capitalist, consumerist America, which I consider a good thing. I consider it very much a "feel good" movie.

Anyway, some decent tunes came off the sound track, here are two: