Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was the most fun film of the year. I'll watch them both again.
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was the most fun film of the year. I’ll watch them both again.”
Agreed on all counts.
Funny...my wife and I both watched it, and about halfway through I was thinking it was a kind of slow movie, but wasn’t going to say anything because she picked it out.
A short time after that crossed my mind, she said “It’s kind of slow.”
I thought the movie had entertainment value as an odd Tarantino-like view of 1969. It is interesting to see the effect the Manson Murders had on our society and the world. It was a shock, and changed things. I think up until that point, what was probably more unusual were people who locked their front doors at night rather than those who didn’t. I wonder if that was one of those watershed events that caused a change in general human behavior in this country.
I had two things in my life related to the Manson Murders that stick out in my mind...
When I was in the USN, I got sent to my first duty station after A School, and going to a new place as a young enlisted man is always an unusual and sometimes awkward event, especially barracks assignments. You don’t know what lot you are going to draw. Anyway, they assigned me to a room, so I walked up the flight of stairs, found the room, knocked, and entered.
Inside the room, I sure enough had a roommate. Rudely, he didn’t say a word, and didn’t even look up at me when I greeted him. He was lying on his rack, reading a paperback book, a sharpening stone on his thigh over which he repeatedly honed a Buck Knife blade slowly back and forth as he read.
That was odd enough, and then I realized the book he was reading was “Helter Skelter”!
The other thing was my younger sister who had run away from home at 16 and was living up in a Vermont hippie commune in Northern Vermont or New Hampshire up on the Canadian border where they were squatting on some guy’s land, no electricity, no running water...I think they called it “People’s Park” or something like that. One of the people she lived with was Linda Kasabian...the one who turned state’s witness against the Manson Family. Of course, I got the impression Linda Kasabian wasn’t one of them like Squeaky Fromme, but...I suppose part of you would have to wonder.