Analysis | Oliver Stone's “JFK” and “The Doors” remain fascinating artistic artifacts, brimming with the brash confidence of a director on a hot streak. They also X-ray some of the cultural fault lines that continue to divide the U.S. 3 decades later.
“In a way, it feels like the movie Jim Morrison would’ve hallucinated as he was dying,” Seitz said. “There’s a lot of deliberately disorienting touches ... that make you feel like you’re on drugs.”
The movie is freewheeling but nonetheless adheres to the standard rock god biopic conventions, the stuff of the John C. ReillyYou might be gripped by Stone’s reverential vision of Morrison as a counterculture prophet who urged his adoring fans to stop being “slaves” to the starchy American establishment.
Oliver Gruner, an academic at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K., explored these contradictions in his 2016 monograph “Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory,” a look at how the American film industry has dramatized the decade.
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