Post by teleadm on Jun 2, 2018 12:37:43 GMT
I can't see many positive things to say about this movie. It all seems highly staged, and both Gary Lockwood and Paul Winfield seemed miscast in their roles. In fact, most people in this movie seemed miscast.
I don't ever remember anything like this in my experience. The Kent State shootings took place on May 4, 1970 and they were CERTAINLY not about campus curriculum changes or school administrative changes. Kent State was a student demonstration against the Cambodian Campaign under Richard Nixon's administration.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
The idea of this movie is ridiculous. It is not as good as the fictional movie, If.... (1968) which may have been making some social statement about students against "the establishment." This movie says nothing..
Though Stanley Kramer produced and directed some great movies during his career, the early 70s were not his best movie-making years.
