The Weather Underground
by Sam Green (II), Bill Siegel
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Actor: Brian Flanagan (II), Richard Nixon, Timothy Leary, Tse-tung Mao, Walter MondaleDirector: Bill Siegel, Sam Green (II)
Brand: New Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: NEW VIDEO GROUP
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Movie Review: Note to one reviewer: Ayers and Obama are not best friends
Summary: 5 Stars
It's really sad that a knucklehead like "MSU Tifoso" should be allowed to review this film, but we do live in the land of the free and the home of the not-so-brave, so there you have it. That guy obviously didn't watch the documentary about the Weather Underground, he was just web-surfing to places where he could express his immature opinions about President Obama, who by the way was just a kid in the 60's and of course had no knowledge of who Bill Ayers was. And he is not today Bill Ayers "best friend", as any rational, mature adult knows. But obviously MSU Tifoso is more comfortable with the Rush Limbaugh crowd of "dittoheads" than he is in any thoughtful forum that deals in facts, and so I can only assume that he must also buy the line that Obama is a Muslim terrorist bent on destroying this country, not perfecting it as Bush/Cheney so brilliantly and intelligently did during their 8-year run to infamy.
My adivce to that clown is to watch the movie. The Weather Underground's goal to stir up revolution and its resort to sometimes violent tactics (bombs, one murder) is still rightfully controversial. But they were also acting out of frustration with the U.S. government's systematic program of annihilation of millions of innocent people in Southeast Asia, as well as ongoing, institutionalized racism at home. It can be plausibly claimed that the government's ongoing use of violence against non-white peoples -- overseas and domestically -- produced a similar response by outraged, idealistic young Americans who, feeling betrayed by a government that was acting more like Ginsberg's Moloch than the leader of the free world, decided, rightly or wrongly, that the only recourse they had was to literally fight fire with fire. We still have a lot to answer for concerning the Vietnam War, as well as allowing Bush/Cheney to brainwash/scare a large segment of the population into meekly accepting our destruction of Iraq, while hemmorraghing money out of the U.S. Treasury to fatten the already bulging wallets of their corporate clients (Halliburton, Blackwater, et al) and all the other profiteers of the military-industrial complex. There's a lot of blood on our hands, and while we can disagree with the Weather Underground's approach on some levels, they were not wrong when they morally, and in some instances physically, opposed American aggression, militarism, and imperialism. Ironically, THEY were the ones calling for a true American exceptionalism, not the blowhards who defended the flag without thinking, tacitly supported racial inequality, blindly supported the war, and voted for the monstrous Nixon without blushing.
Summary of The Weather Underground
This film tells the unbelievable story of the weathermen the group of 70s radicals who fueled by outrage over the vietnam war & racism in america went underground throughout much of the decade to wage a low-level war against the government. It includes modern day interviews with key members & founders. Studio: New Video Group Release Date: 05/25/2004 Run time: 92 minutes Rating: NrThe key players in the radical movement known as the Weather Underground are skillfully brought to life in this Oscar-nominated documentary. The Weathermen were born of sixties protest, but took their scheme to overthrow the U.S. government to especially violent extremes. Never a well-populated movement, the Underground petered out as its leaders aged during the seventies; by decade's end, weary of hiding, most of them had turned themselves over to the authorities. That journey, by which a fire-breathing revolutionary such as Bernadine Dohrn became a (still fiery) gray-haired wife and mother, is an intriguing one. This film, rich in period footage (and some unnecessary sensationalism) captures the era somewhat broadly. But the present-day interviews with the participants, contrasted with their radical selves, provides an exceptionally detailed look inside the organization itself. It's not a nostalgic look back, and the overall mood is sobering rather than celebratory. Lili Taylor provides the narration. --Robert Horton
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