I only needed to see it once. I was underage at the time and had to sneak in the back door of the theater. One of my 18 year old friends bought a ticket and the rest of us went around to the back exit and waited for him to have a chance to open the exit door.
That movie left a mark. It was typical of the time when all the movies of the late 60's left you depressed as hell when you left the theater.
These days I get depressed when I see a movie because the only adjective that screenwriters know how to use starts with an f and ends with a k.
Film making is not about pleasing everyone. Like it or not, it is an art form and an important part of our freedom of speech, that we so rightly cherish in this country.
MC shocked many people at the time, it shook things up in Hollywood too. It was an extremely well made character study. It showed a different side of life in a very real setting. But above all it made people think and in my opinion, that’s what good movies should do.