I didn't have high hopes for this documentary but I was looking for something light and entertaining to watch, and the first two comedies were so bad I turned them off in minutes. I stuck with this because of the interesting usage of film and commercials from the 1950s.
But I'm not really sure what was going on here.
There's a couple of elderly men - wondering if they're gay - and one man looks to be in his 70s. IN 1989. He would have been a teenager in the ...1930s?
Then there's a young white woman who doesn't look a day over 35 and a young man who can't be more than 40 who would been little kids in the 1950s.
What are these people even talking about? Oh and the obese, poorly groomed middle aged man who talks about what a failure he was at both masturbating and dating girls in high school. Big surprise there, big guy, I doubt the generation you were born into has anything to do with it.
Some of the stories seemed pretty universal at least to me who was admittedly raised in a small town but in the 1990s. Some of what they're saying just seems like things that happened in the 20th century in conservative, white neighborhoods. I think the principal difference would have been that some of the things they describe as high school would have been middle school or junior high school behavior by my day.
I dunno. It's okay if you like to hound over 20th century vintage film and memorabilia, antiques and clothes, and I'm that sort of person. It's not beautifully filmed or wonderfully edited or anything, though. It's more like a fair-to-middling collage or a montage of 50s clips.
