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A word to those who find F&L incomprehensible - It's supposed to be!
Imagine if you will, everything you'd believed in for most of your life seemingly disappearing in front of your eyes. The use of drugs in F&L, and the 70's in general, are a means of coping with that loss, as opposed to the 60's ethic of 'altering consciousness', or more accurately, trying to induce a state where the overthrow of the status quo seemed possible. The 80's sprouted heavy cocaine use, as people desperately tried to feel good about what they were doing, despite many in their hearts knowing it was wrong. The 90's seems to have been a desperate mishmash of the previous three decades. Sometimes inducing madness is the only way to survive. If the whole F&L movie team managed to convey more than an iota of what HST and others of his generation felt, then they have succeeded in an almost impossible task. They have managed to convey in celluloid feelings and visions normally confined to the inside of the human mind. Nothing's perfect, this film is no exception. However, what it does is make relevant to a whole new generation a work which was considered out-of-date and out of touch.
If you don't 'get' what it is on about, and genuinely feel that there is no hope for what's left of the non-profit mindset, go watch 'Wall Street', take a dose of cynicism and/or a line of cocaine and try to feel good about yourself. Meanwhile, we'll try and salvage something from the wreck of humanity.
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