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I often complain I never got to see the current significant
movies, so last night, I got to watch Tarantino's "One upon
a Time in Hollywood". A lot of people have gushed about it, and
how it captures the feel and look of the 60s US. It does quite a bit
more than that: it offers an explanation of the great cultural shift
that happens in those years. There is not a single black person in the
film but it is about the end of segregation...because if America beat
Hitler and the prominence of 'White" races, then racial mixity has to
come next.

It is a longish movie - Lyse kept saying it seemed endless - but there were
lovely moments of joyous nostalgia for me: the music, dancing, awful
black and white television, clothes. I was 19 in 1969 and full English, platform
sandals, elephant pants and all. Here, we got the cut-off jeans of California
and guys in body-hugging suits and shiny suits.

The bodies were wrong: Margot Robbie is too healthy to be a believable
Sharon Tate and the Manson girls look like Kardashian women. That is inevitable
because the post-war years were about the starvation of long wars, and baby
boomers growing tall in the next generation. Dreama Walker as Connie Stevens
in the Playboy mansion scene was so accurate, I though it was her. Had to Google
it to discover it was an actress playing Ms Stevens and that the latter had
not achieved Botox Nivarna. GREAT cinema!!

The men in the movie had the hard work of melding the sensitivity of the epoch
and the uptake of the present. A pitbull!? Guys who say "What the fuck'!? That
never happened. I am also rehearsing a talk for Lyse over breakfast about the true
nature of Spaghetti Westerns and European movies with fast cars. Racking my brain,
here.

Might watch it again because it's a rental. At the time, would have seen it once.

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