de ja vu (minus accents)

i watched this movie "katherine" with sissy spacek (1975) last night. i've actually been watching a lot of movies from the 60s & 70s lately. (when they had no clue that you could play with lighting in such a way that it would still look like night AND you could see the actors.) here's the thing though. quite a few (like "katherine") are protest films, thought-provoking films whatever you want to call those wild & wonderful times. but if it wasn't for the quality of the film, the dress, and the hairstyles i could swear it was now. for the most part they're saying the same thing "crazy alternatives" (viewpoints/lifestyle not music) are saying now. it's as if everything paused & 30 years later we're pressing play, except now the problems that were around then are so exacerbated, and so many new ones are falling on us everyday that, well, fixing anything is a long long way from here. and maybe we really didn't press play. maybe we're just on that spiral time travels in & we're merely revisiting everything on a new loop. it's kind of weird & creepy, those echoes from past ages, past decades. like when you read the book of your life written by someone else. makes you feel pretty small. also makes you wonder if change is really possible or if we're just swimming upstream as they say. time to ditch time. scribble on a piece of paper....that should be how time is directed if it must be. but wouldn't it be crazy having everything around at once? might already be that way. who knows. could be fun though--a dash or two of chaos certainly enlivens one's day.