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Though their bombs never killed anyone but three of their own members in an accidental explosion, the members of the Weather Underground had inverted the very principles of pacifism that had motivated so many to oppose the Vietnam War in the first place. Green??€™s film is a 90-minute attempt to understand that contradiction—but ultimately, he says, the questions surrounding the Weather Underground cannot be answered for those who lived through the events...
...Green??€™s only complaint about his visit to Harvard, though, is that there were too many middle-aged people and not enough students in the audience at the archive. The decades-old wounds explored by The Weather Underground are still far from healing—a fact made clear by the scattered hisses that greeted figures from Richard Nixon to Todd Gitlin, a more moderate figure from the anti-war movement of the 1960s, as they appeared on screen...
...Green??€”from the middle generation, born between the boomers he knows are still racked by the debates of the 1960s and the youth he now hopes to bring into them—says his interest in the Weather Underground long predates his career as a filmmaker...
...decade of Green??€™s youth, kicked off by the surrender of the Weather Underground’s remaining leaders to authorities in 1980, is represented in the film by starkly ironic images: clips from an aerobics video and footage of Ronald Reagan are juxtaposed with the rise of AIDS and crack cocaine...
...captain Tricia Tubridy and sophomore Jess Holsey proved particularly effective at infiltrating the Big Green??€™s set plays before they were carried out, snatching two and three steals beyond the three-point arc, respectively...