The tagline alone should sell you on this film/documentary. "Artist. Humanity. National Threat." it probably scared conservatives away. Very few pop stars can really say they influenced history. See this film and you will have to admit and admire that John Lennon is more historically relevant than Elvis Presley or Michael Jackson. Who did they get to interview on this documentary? Maybe Andy Warhol, Paul McCartney, Elton John, David Bowie, stock footage of Ed Sullivan perhaps? No motherFREAKING Walter Cronkite, Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, George McGovern, Gore Vidal and a Vietnam vet. And well also Giraldo Riveria and that jerkoff G. Gordon Liddy who probably did the most to swing sympathy toward Lennon. G. Gordon Liddy's justification of the Kent State massacre and justification of spying on Lennon and the justification of interrogating peace marchers and civil rights marchers is just inhumane and disgusting and is of the lowest human character and is an exemplar of grandiose paranoia, nihilism, narcissism, and bigotry. John was more so than I think anything other celebrity put on the spot for his beliefs when what he said was simple elements of Divine Truth that were transcendently wise philosophy. How could the guy who wrote "Imagine" and "All You Need Is Love" scare a tyrannical paranoid leader like Richard Milhouse Nixon? Because he hang out with Abby Hoffman, Bobby Seale and had connections to Mike Douglas. What was wrong with this? He talked frankly about what was wrong with the war on both simplistic principle and in the specific transgresses of this war in specific. "Working Class Hero" and "Give Me Some Truth" were perceived and rightly so as attacks on the status quo. This is not about anarchy it is about righteous standards. The kind Locke, Jefferson, Thoreau, and Tolstoy wrote about. The kind of righteousness Schweitzer, Mother Teresa, Gandhi and Martin Luther King exemplified. Does anyone speak out like that anymore. Okay so in Clinton's Bush's day and still in Obama's time we have Michael Moore and Jon Stewart but they aren't taken as seriously because the chocolate coated comedy they used to digest better but probably retain a little less. With An Inconvenient Truth, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, March Of The Penguins, Autism: The Musical, Knocking and anything I've seen from Michael Moore this will move you I mean it and not because I am as it would appear to others a bleeding whiny heart liberal but because a have at least some depth of compassion that can be riled up by something other than nationalism. I am more than the colors on a flag, I am molded in the image of a loving God. Note I am aware of the irony of having listed Ben Stein's documentary as a great example of moving film as he worked for Nixon but in certain areas some of Nixon's henchmen had sincere beliefs and a kind sense of humanity and a thundering spirit to conquer particular forms of prejudice.
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