I enjoyed the movie, too. And I'm glad I knew going in that the movie doesn't actually show the concert itself. In fact, I had a thought about that...
Elliot heads towards Woodstock, and when he reaches the field, he meets two hippies in a VW van who give him a tab of LSD. After watching the colorful patterns inside the van get all psychedelic for x hours, he steps out after dark and sees the crowds of people on the hill, and in the distance, the stage, which he sees as a concentration of millions of points of light.
It looked like a galaxy to me. And it occurred to me, if Woodstock was a galaxy, Elliott only made it about as far in as the solar system. Unlike Michael Wadleigh's documentary, this movie is earthbound, in a sense.
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Date: 2009-09-14 07:46 am (UTC)Elliot heads towards Woodstock, and when he reaches the field, he meets two hippies in a VW van who give him a tab of LSD. After watching the colorful patterns inside the van get all psychedelic for x hours, he steps out after dark and sees the crowds of people on the hill, and in the distance, the stage, which he sees as a concentration of millions of points of light.
It looked like a galaxy to me. And it occurred to me, if Woodstock was a galaxy, Elliott only made it about as far in as the solar system. Unlike Michael Wadleigh's documentary, this movie is earthbound, in a sense.