Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about? How was it? And what can we learn from it? Fortified by various arts council grants, young film makers have scoured archives and garages for old footage and tracked down veterans of quixotic campaigns. Their subjects range from radical idealists to a literary anarchist to the dream of commerce at the 1939 New York World's Fair. But their object is always the same: to train a sympathetic camera on those Americans who marched toward their own versions of Utopia...
...there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine . . . A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory...
...political change, communists never revealed their alliance to the Party. They could lose their jobs and all of their gains as organizers and union leaders if people knew their politics. Nevertheless, they worked on, steadily recruiting and organizing strikes. They believed in a methodology that would make the American Dream a reality...
...LYRICAL FILM El Norte is a sobering reminder of the flip side of the American Dream: the harsh and discouraging existence of the lower-class immigrant. Through the hopeful eyes of its central adult characters--a young Guatemalan Indian named Enrique and his sister Rosa--we see the ultimate "American" city, Los Angeles, in a new light: for a change the focus is not on aging starlets, alienated gigolos, or the jaded Rodeo Drive crowd. The hopes dashed in this tale are of a humbler sort, concerning only survival and modest prosperity...
...their journey north, Enrique and Rosa naively, but always intelligently, ride successive waves of shock and betrayal together. The strength of their dream propels them through daunting encounters with everything from tunnel rats to border patrols. In one hilarious scene, Enrique makes use of a friend's advice to pepper his speech with the word "fuck" in order to convince a pair of immigration officers that he is a Mexican...