Youths Edge _Chis Remy- Woodstock
From a documentary that was edited from 120 miles of tape, this 228-minute film directed by Michael Wadleigh proved to set the scene of Woodstock, a 1969 film festival held near Bethel, New York. In a time where the country was at war, people were out celebrating what was known as “Rock and Roll.� The movie’s depiction is mostly a tribute to a numerous amount of bands that set the stage for music. Many people felt at the time this music had potential chronicles of hazardous affects (Bloom 73). Its construed lyrics were sad to penetrate teens everywhere and even cause them to perform tort acts. What is considered normal for youth is music, it is a time for them to find out whom they are, to understand how the world works. Music doesn’t kill people, people kill people. Another radical issue that youth decided upon was their choice of clothing. Articles or no articles at all people dressed very differently for the concert. Fashion is not only an art its something society regards to a high stature. What we wear not only expresses things about us it sometimes can even tell a story. At Woodstock, the story the clothes construed was Hippy life. A life full of relaxation, drugs and music, this hippy life was something many people could associate with during a time war was on the political agenda.
This documentary not only depicts Woodstock as a radical concert but one that is full of drugs. When lines like “Don’t worry about the brown acid� introduce concerts and “acid is not bad, it’s just a different trip,� the ideas of drugs being present are very likely. I am not going to argue the fact that drugs had a great deal to do with Woodstock, but drugs were not the main aspect of youths struggle to get to the concert. With an outstanding 450,000 people, music was the reason people came. This documentary shows the greatness that music was at the time and will forever be “Rock and Roll.�