By Alicia Malone
From the perspective of someone who never lived through it, there’s something romantic about the political idealism of the 1960s and ’70s. It seemed to be a time when there was great power in the voices of passionate young people, who would frequently storm the castle to have their say. The films of that time too, held real movie stars. Not just perfect-looking celebrities, but unique actors such as Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford… icons of the screen who are unlike anyone we see working today. That’s probably why many of them are still working today.
Including Robert Redford, whose ninth film as a director, The Company You Keep, pairs old school movie actors with a story about radical ’70s protestors. The film is based on a novel by Neil Gordon, and tells a fictionalized account of the members of a real anti-war movement called the Weather Underground. As old news footage tells us at the beginning of the film, members of the Weather Underground were charged with plotting to blow up government buildings and for the accidental death of a security guard in a bank robbery gone awry.
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