Re:The Sixties Come Back to Life in "Everything Is Now"
by rufus_foreman on Thursday June 12, 2025 @11:08AM
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American Graffiti didn't depict boomers, they were kids who had graduated high school in 1962, that was Silent Generation.
It's referred to as a nostalgia movie, which on one hand seems fitting if you've watched it, but on the other hand, it was written in 1972 about a period in time ten years older. Would a movie screenplay written today by a 28 year old depicting being an 18 year old in 2015 be seen as nostalgic in the same way?
Re:The Sixties Come Back to Life in "Everything Is Now"
by JKCalhoun on Thursday June 12, 2025 @12:23PM
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I realize that. It depicted 1962 — I was born a few years later. I meant to use it as an example that it has always been generations holding on to their formative years, not just boomers (there are just a lot more of them).
Seriously though I have been musing as to how the children of a generation get to define their parent's generation, more or less wrest if from them, in film, etc. Sometimes (often) they take a fairly dim view of the world they grew up in, a dim view of their parents. (And maybe now I am channelling a film like "The Graduate", for example.)