Arvostelut (1)
An experimental essay, a supremely self-reflective film combining an intimate personal portrait with social and political climate. Jost, as an intellectual familiar with modern humanities and as a young man sentenced to more than two years in prison for refusing military service during the Vietnam War, creates a film that is absolutely at the level of the best experimental politically engaged film on the edge between documentary and fiction, best represented by the Dziga Vertov group. However, he never loses sight of the individual, i.e., himself as the creator of the work, as an individual determined by his surroundings and, in retrospect, reflecting this cultural environment and - where a strong moment of engagement is manifested - transforming through the form of this reflection. Indeed, the linguistic and cultural turn in this film finds its perfect artistic expression. The difference between the interior and the exterior is erased - the "otherness" of the world permeates the individual, which cannot be escaped, even if one is most opposed to Nixon, Vietnam, imperialism, and advertising. A world that exists only through each individual - Jost deconstructs the "objective" structures of contemporary society, examines their reflection in the structures of an individual's life modeled after them, thinking, love relationships, and ultimately shows the necessity of change, which must simultaneously change the individual's consciousness in order to begin to change the world.
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