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An essay on the year 1975, looking at the classic movies all released in that year.

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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.

01:28I like taking people into a dark theater

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

01:33We want the lie.

01:35Because it feels good.

01:36We want the heroes.

01:38We want the happy ending.

01:41Were we living the American dream

01:43or an American nightmare?

01:45The truth was more complex.

01:48I 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.

01:54But now it's looking a lot more like the future.

Breakdown: 1975 - Trailer (2025)

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