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A theory about why some of us love 'Four Friends' and some of us don't

posted 15 years ago by NumeroOne
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I did not like FOUR FRIENDS. I thought I would.

I was born in 1984. But I love most pop culture related to the '60s. I love music producer Joe Boyd's book WHITE BICYCLES not as much for all of his anecdotes about rock musicians as for his accounts of every day life in the '60s and how different it was and what he liked about it. I was very moved by it.

That's just one excellent example of how much I've related to that decade.

I just plain didn't connect with FOUR FRIENDS.

It rang so false with me that I'm beginning to think you had to have been alive in the '60s to connect with it. I'm beginning to think that it has a verisimilitude to the REAL '60s that manages to make it immune to any other possible weaknesses it might contain.

So let's do an experiment: say when you were born, if you felt a connection to FOUR FRIENDS, and why did you or why did you not?

[–] tigger83138 10 years ago

I was born in 1977. There wasn't much of a connection with me. The beginning of the movie didn't feel real and I thought for sure I would be turning it off but, I finished it. It wasn't too bad but the combination of the main woman being flower slutty and the dreary sadness kind of killed it for me.