Breakdown 1975 Documentary Movie

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Breakdown 1975 Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis:  In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art. This documentary explores how a turbulent era gave rise to iconic movies like “Taxi Driver,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” and “Network.” "Breakdown: 1975" is directed by Academy Award-winner Morgan Neville.

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00:011975 was the closest America came to saying,

00:05hey, I got flaws too.

00:06And for a brief moment, cinema and pop culture

00:09was able to look at that.

00:11But it was too much, and we turned the hell away.

00:161975. Crime was up. Paranoia was rampant.

00:20From Watergate to the Bicentennial,

00:23America was having a nervous breakdown.

00:26It was a nation at the crossroads,

00:28told through the movies that captured its soul.

00:3175 was the most important moment

00:34in the history of the film business.

00:35Compared to now, everything was paradise.

00:38People used to really like good movies.

00:44Movies were made back then that didn't pander to trend.

00:48Jaws, All the President's Men, Taxi Driver,

00:51Nashville, Cuckoo's Nest Network.

00:53Studios let go.

00:55All the old conventions wiped away.

00:58And we were creating a new world.

01:01It's like the veneer was taken off.

01:04A certain idealism and a certain hope

01:06that we thought that we had,

01:08that was extinguished.

01:10The film can either put you to sleep nicely,

01:13or it can wake you up.

01:15People have got to know whether or not

01:16their president's a crook.

01:17Well, I'm not a crook.

01:19Optimism becomes cynicism.

01:22And Hollywood is reflective of that shift.

01:25I like taking people into a dark theater

01:30and giving them an experience they'll never forget.

01:32We want the lie.

01:35Because it feels good.

01:36We want the heroes.

01:38We want the happy ending.

01:40Were we living the American dream

01:42or an American nightmare?

01:45The truth was more complex.

01:47I wasn't observing,

01:49oh, here's a change in our society.

01:50That was a society.

01:52That's who we are.

01:53The past now is looking a lot more like the future.

02:15The future,

02:17the Korean dream.

02:18Is may,

02:20not the obscure name,

02:23let's walk on our website.

02:24Oh, there's more...

02:25...

02:26Let's walk right now!

02:28Pit in a distance.

02:29And a Downtown...

02:30Please move in...

02:31чески Spin on?

02:32If you go in any direction...

02:33The device...

02:34I'm鍋 Eleets...

02:35for the moment...

02:36... and your son is planning to propose.

02:38The animals,

02:39jewish is a pretty strong...

02:40...what happens...

02:41Instead,

02:42the animals do theración.

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