![]() If you’re onboard with the singer’s lefty politics, then Greendale works as a laundry list of the various axes Young has to grind. As with the rest of Young’s films, narrative structure and character development is mostly skipped. The film focuses on a Californian, hippie-leaning family called the Greens, in which each family member deals with various personal tragedies related to the media, law enforcement and ecological destruction. The true thrill of Human Highway lies in the unrepeatable things that happen (hello, The Room!) when you let a lovably overambitious amateur sit in the director’s chair.Įssentially a feature-length music video for Young’s accompanying album of the same name, Greendale strikes a more serious, solemn tone as it mines small-town concerns. It’s more of a long, stoned giggle than anything resembling a coherent story. There are also milk baths, bonfire sing-alongs and a Native American powwow. After an atomic disaster, the plant’s nuclear garbagemen (played by Devo) attempt to protect the nearby town of Linear Valley. ![]() In Human Highway, Young’s a bumbling auto mechanic named Lionel Switch employed at a gas-station diner, which happens to be located precariously near a power plant. ![]() So far, he’s faced nothing but critical disapproval for his filmmaking career - but, hey, he conquered being an art-house documentarian, so what’s next? Turns out it’s an apocalyptic sci-fi comedy. In retrospect, this would seem to encapsulate the existence of Journey Through the Past and Young’s resolute inability to go with the flow of public approval.įlash-forward from Journey From the Past and let’s just pause right here because you’ve really got to love Young’s determination. Past starts out as a sort of traditional rock doc, with scenes featuring Buffalo Springfield and his Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young bandmates, but Young eventually disappears from his own movie, replaced by abstract sequences featuring a dazed college graduate wandering away from his ceremony and into the barren desert. On the other hand, Young’s oppositional-defiant disorder is the stuff of legend, so naturally, he followed this commercial knockout with his head-scratching directorial debut. ![]() In 1972, Young was a hot commodity, with his just-released single “Heart of Gold” hitting No. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |