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The College Movie
Shivin Dhariwal
9/22/2018
Stuart Hagmann’s Strawberry Statement which was based on James Simon Kunen’s humorous
book of the same name is a thriller with many flaws, being displayed from the perspective of a
student who never really becomes a revolutionary but is close to one
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He joins the protest in pursuit of a pretty
girl
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Stuart Hagmann
previously worked with commercials and on television and this is his second film
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There are extreme low angle shots with
countless zooms, montages and constant camera movement
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It gives a documentary feeling, making it seem that we
are present with the film
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One of these people who knows how to do things has reconnected a phone,
but he needs someone to hold these two wires together while he talks
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I'll do anything
to feel like I'm doing something
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He gives in to his
daydreaming and is often confused by life
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Most of Simon’s decisions are driven by girls
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The Strawberry Statement has constant shifts in tone throughout the movie going from a
romantic standpoint and ending with violence
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This was
shown to us in one of the scenes when Simon gets into a fight with a fellow student which he
later magnifies into an instance of police brutality
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This movie was shot in the
late 60’s so the fact that more women were involved in the film goes against the stereotype at the
time
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The idea of free love does thrive and is not
really judgement of promiscuity
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I feel the most powerful scene in the film was the last one
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Making the police look like animals and the kids like
idiots
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But even this
flawed movie is something the people connected to because it gives us a taste of the following
the “true” American dream

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