Word: weatherly
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...director Sam Green sat in Hollywood’s Kodak Theater for the 76th Academy Awards, where his 2003 film The Weather Underground was nominated for Best Documentary Feature. This Tuesday he was in New York, where the film was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s biennial exhibition...
This is perhaps not the most natural strategy for a film that painstakingly documents the mindset that drove formerly-peaceful activists to adopt a philosophy of violence as the Vietnam War spiraled out of control. The students who made up the Weathermen, later the Weather Underground, chose to express their objections to what they saw as an unjust, needlessly-murderous war with a series of domestic bombings throughout the 1970s on targets including the U.S. Capitol and Harvard’s Center for International Affairs...
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...
...actually worried at first. I was walking around and I didn’t hear any loud music or people going out. But as the weather has improved a little more and I’ve gained a few friendships, I’ve found that indeed they do party at Harvard...