{"id":5475,"date":"2008-04-22T14:22:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T21:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5475"},"modified":"2021-01-17T20:20:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T03:20:12","slug":"strawberry-statement-the-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5475","title":{"rendered":"Strawberry Statement, The (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;The only way to make a revolution is to take the university and recapture it for the students and for the people!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Strawberry-Statement-Poster-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Strawberry-Statement-Poster-1-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-63999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Strawberry-Statement-Poster-1-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Strawberry-Statement-Poster-1-85x128.jpg 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Strawberry-Statement-Poster-1-178x270.jpg 178w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Strawberry-Statement-Poster-1.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA college student (Bruce Davison) joins a revolutionary movement on campus in order to get closer to a girl (Kim Darby) he&#8217;s interested in.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bud Cort Films<\/li>\n<li>College<\/li>\n<li>Coming-of-Age<\/li>\n<li>Revolutionaries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nLoosely based on James Kunen&#8217;s non-fiction account of his experiences at Columbia University in the 1960s, <em>The Strawberry Statement<\/em> offers a heady look at counterculture activism, one which unabashedly foregrounds the fact that a desire to &#8220;fit in&#8221; and &#8220;meet chicks&#8221; may have propelled many impressionable college students towards their nascent identities as revolutionaries. To his credit, director Stuart Hagmann never tries to present his protagonist (well played by a very young Bruce Davison) as anything other than utterly human; we believe in him because we can relate to his youthful desire for excitement and romance. Much has been made about the fact that Hagmann &#8212; primarily a director of commercials and television shows &#8212; can&#8217;t seem to keep his camera still, but modern audiences used to MTV jump cuts will likely find his direction relatively tame; and while his overhead shots of protesters splayed out in Busby Berkeley-like formations strike some as disingenuous, I believe they provide a nifty visual touch to the proceedings. Ultimately, <em>The Strawberry Statement<\/em> isn&#8217;t meant to be a neo-realist documentary, but rather a psychedelic envisioning of a specific time and place, as experienced by one young man; as such, it&#8217;s a dated but relatively worthy cinematic time-capsule. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bruce Davison as Simon<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/strawberry-davison.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/strawberry-davison.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5477\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kim Darby as Simon&#8217;s love interest, Linda<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/strawberry-darby.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/strawberry-darby.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5478\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Simon and Linda &#8220;holding up&#8221; a local grocery store<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/strawberry-holdup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/strawberry-holdup.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5479\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Good use of Bay Area locales<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/strawberry-locales.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/strawberry-locales.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5480\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>An effectively heady depiction of student protest in the 1960s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/strawberry-protest.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/strawberry-protest.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5481\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it&#8217;s certainly recommended for those interested in cinematic depictions of counterculture movements. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0066415\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1970\/07\/19\/archives\/a-razzberry-for-strawberry.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvguide.com\/movies\/strawberry-statement\/review\/119141\">TV Guide Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The only way to make a revolution is to take the university and recapture it for the students and for the people!&#8221; Synopsis: A college student (Bruce Davison) joins a revolutionary movement on campus in order to get closer to a girl (Kim Darby) he&#8217;s interested in. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Bud Cort Films College Coming-of-Age Revolutionaries Review: Loosely based on James Kunen&#8217;s non-fiction account of his experiences at Columbia University in the 1960s, The Strawberry Statement offers a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5475\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64000,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions\/64000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}