The U.S. vs. John Lennon
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Movie Review: Give Peace a Chance
Summary: 5 Stars
I chose this movie for reflection, as I have come to the conclusion that the U.S. Government, at the policy level (Cheney & top political appointees) is insane, criminal, and destroying the Republic. Like Lee Iacocca, I keep asking myself, "where is the outrage?"
John Lennon, whatever his warts, got it right. Give peace a chance indeed (see the image I have uploaded, it represents the rest of my life's work and illustrates what Lennon was hinting at).
I believe the Dick Cheney, Rudy Gulliani, and Larry Silverstein murdered most if not all of the victims of 9/11 in NYC, and that Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld put a missile into the Pentagon and separately orchestrated the murder of those on the airplane that crashed. I cannot prove it, but I can certainly say with authority that 9/11 has not been properly investigated; that Iraq was done on a web of lies and that Iran has played Cheney like fiddle, using US power and money and lives to get rid of Iran's two arch-enemies, the Talban and Saddam Hussein.
We have gone NUTS as country. Martin Luther King, John Lennon, even "Hanoi" Jane Fonda were on target. Civil disobedience in long overdue in this country, and this film reminds us why individual morality and individual passion for justice matters.
It also reminds us of the lengths that entrenched power will go to silence and intimiate its legal ethcial opponents. The federal government, at the political appointee level, has no honor.
Why We Fight
War Is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated General, Two Other Anti=Interventionist Tracts, and Photographs from the Horror of It
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (The American Empire Project)
The Fifty-Year Wound: How America's Cold War Victory Has Shaped Our World
Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions
The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
Gandhi (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
The Pathology of Power (A Challenge to Human Freedom and Safety)
Movie Review: How can I watch it?
Summary: 1 Stars
Beware people from Auztralia even though other NTSC might work on your DVD THIS DOESN'T WORK unless you have a fancy machine or can play it through computor I carn't. Caveat emtor.Movie Review: Interesting Historical Piece
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this DVD as a gift for my wife and watched it with her. Even though I knew a lot of the John Lennon story, I was still suprised at some of the events that were brought out in this film. From a historical perspective, lots of interesting information was brought out, including much historical footage. Also, there were lots of interviews with people who knew John and discussed the situation that he was in. There is not a lot of new information here for the true and devoted John Lennon fan, but the information is presented in a easy to watch style. The movie goes fast; in fact I wished it had lasted longer. All fans of John Lennon and the Beatles will enjoy this film. Movie Review: The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Summary: 5 Stars
I fell in love with John all over again. I first rented this movie and while the credits were still running, I bought it on Amazon.Movie Review: Great subject, okay movie
Summary: 4 Stars
I have to admit something: I wasn't a Beatles fan for awhile. Not in the meaning that I didn't like Beatles music but rather I just never listened to it. I was surrounded so much about TALK about how great they were that aside from the rare snippet, I never really heard much. One of the big figureheads and most likely one of the best songwriters in the group and rock world was John Lennon. But he's probably equally known for his political rallyings and cries for peace and it made him an unlikely threat to America's government.
His first big controversy was when he said in an interview that the Beatles were more bigger than Jesus popularity-wise or has Lennon himself put it: "we mean more to kids than Jesus does". This gets him in huge hot water with protests and record smashing that we later saw with the whole pope picture/Sinead O' Connor controversy. But it didn't stop there as the more political and socially outspoken he got, the more the government got annoyed. Talk of followers and wiretaps are thrown out and at one point, he was even considered being deported.
With Vietnam heavy in people's minds at the time, Lennon befriending outspoken people such as Abbie Hoffmann or urging the release of a man convicted of giving marijuana to an undercover cop seemed like a bit of a bad move. But in a way he knew how to push buttons as efficiently as possible. Who else would think of an idea of staging a bed-in, basically a whole week in bed which would get attention no matter how absurd an idea it is. Plus it helped he had some big protest songs such as Give Peace a Chance and what's most likely piano's answer to a beginner guitarist, that of Imagine. Why he would get such attention is beyond me but it's evidence of how I see America: if the words coming out of your mouth are even slightly left of "America rules" than you're in trouble.
The film as a whole on the other hand feels almost sluggish. It reminds me of one of those A&E documentaries I see where it helps to have commercial breaks now and then to break things up. The actual stuff being mentioned is interesting but it's presented in such a way that it seems like one of those educational videos professor's make you watch. Whereas other documentaries work as films as well as what the topic is, this seems like a great topic with a serviceable presentation. It's also got too much of an abrupt ending with of course the murder of Lennon but it comes and then it's like the film just ends without a kind of resolution for it; it almost feels more like a last-minute scene rather than a fully expanded on one.
For Beatles fans who have to devour everything, this is of course where to go. For people who are interested in just how misguided people in power are, this is a great place to see just how much they care about what they do, regardless if the so-called "enemy" sang a song called I Am the Walrus.