I’m dead, Bill. I just want to stay that way for awhile

The world seems to be a world of optimism giving way to cynicism when this first premiered, just by the fact that governments couldn’t be trusted, assassinations and cover-ups could be orchestrated and connected deaths could be easily chalked up to coincidence and all this was treated as a shock and a sudden realization. Now it’s common knowledge, memed by a generation that finds this discovery obvious, mere fact - Epstein didn’t kill himself, Boeing silences whistleblowers, Bush did 9/11, whatever the case may be. 

However, it’s also because of these type of paranoid media productions that corrupted and all but forced this apathy on this generation - if the world is this bleak and cynical in a time when this kind of thing happening was appalling, a “simple” time, then what can we do but laugh as a coping mechanism 50 years later when it will continue to happen anyway. 

Nothing ever changes, except when viewed at a different angle. But what good is a changing perspective if the event still occurs anyway, obscured or in plain view?

Also, hot take I know, but Gordon Willis‘ work as DP is probably the most interesting of the ‘70s.