[Joe 6-pack]

"The thing I think of when I consider this ‘nostalgia’ movie is that the night it depicts was only about 13 years past when the movie premiered."

Funny how that whole nostalgia thing works. I'm not sure how old you are, but I was about 13 when the Kinks released their song Come Dancing. In the song, Ray Davies recounts the music and dancing of his youth and it seemed like such a long reach into the past. It recently dawned on me that I'm now a lot older than Ray Davies was when he wrote the lyrics, and now, that song is a nostalgic recollection of my youth!

[Oratam]

Ray Davies may have been born nostalgic.

[TalBlack]

I was 4 yrs old in ‘62. When the film came out it seemed appropriate to me to examine in this way the ‘dim and hoary past’. In the 60’s if one was just 3 yrs older or younger than a sibling they belonged to very different “eras” (as we called them). 5 years was an eternity, at least here on the east coast. SO many different styles of clothes and music came and went so fast that it gave me (who was paying attention) a VERY distorted view of time.

[Lancey Howard]

Funny how that whole nostalgia thing works.

In my mind I still separate the "early", 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' Beatles music (5th grade) from the "new" 'Abbey Road' Beatles music (high school). It's weird. A six-year span is like a lifetime at that age.