January 3, 2013

Blue State, Film Review



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780486/

This film was produced in 2007, in partial fulfillment of the MFA requirements for the Film School at Columbia University. In this interesting story near the end, the two US citizens wandering around Canada meet an older man who says he was at Columbia in 1968 during the student protests. He lives in a remote cabin and makes a beer called, Strawberry Statement. That is the title of a book written by a student in 1968. The title comes from a comment made by Dean Herbert L. Deane, who said, "The student opinions about university administrative decisions have no more importance to me than if the students had said they liked the taste of strawberries," thus The Strawberry Statement.

This film is the story about a disaffected young man who promised to leave the US if George W. Bush was re-elected in 2004. 

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