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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Back to the Future
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 00:11:20 EDT
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In article <8500@watarts.UUCP> mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (M. A. Upmalis) writes:

>The point is that films while they can be instruments of social change,
>criticism etcetera do no have to be mobilising forces of change. However
>they should reflect change in society.  After I posted I rembered the
>band, but they were in essence "brought in to entertain the suburb kids".
>I would let one movie go by or two, but if many movies that kids see
>don't provide the same message of what we would like western society to
>be and what it actually is, then something is going to get lost in the
>shuffle.

>Children can see that older people can relate to younger people, that
>our ecology is a precious thing that can be lost.  The impact of
>movies like Cotton Club, Who has seen the wolf, Harry and Tonto each in
>their own way are representative of other values seperate from
>suburbia and yuppie dum...

Sure, movies can do this.  But not all movies can do this.  We've just spent
a decade tearing apart the past.  Why not, then, a movie that remembers some
of what was good about the past, and that recalls what we share with our
parents?

One of the points of this film was that Marty's parents were once kids too.
A lot of the appeal of the movie draws on this.  Sure, there were a lot of
bad things about the 50's.  The movie points a lot of them out itself.  But
people need to remember that there were good things too, like Doc.

Charley Wingate