well. i do not want to lecture anybody but i do feel the urge to say some things i consider important about this beautiful film. i saw it for the first time in 1976 (i was 14) and then one more time a year later. that was it. the rest of it was the pink lp of elton john soundtrack getting the music and the story deeper and deeper inside my heart. how deep. a week ago my cousin gave me a vhs copy as a present. (no dvd yet). boy. was i surprised. poets have always sustained that deep childhood and adolescent experiences of beauty and love and god and idealist pursuits and stay with you forever. since they occur mostly at the heart level (no intellect yet. ) and they define your soul contours like a sculptor would do with a stone. if sometimes we do not tend to forget how right they are perhaps we would do better in understanding the meaning of every minute and of every decision and of every turning point of our lives. so and i confess i feel nostalgia. but the fascinating part of this is watching the film again and and through this trip back in time and enriching that understanding of why we and people from the 60  and grew up as we did. the spirit of those times is all here represent a genesis created far from the official world of consuming and economic success and make love not war and the beautiful pop ballads and the poetry of the lyrics and a totally romantic view of adolescent rebellion with the awakening of sexuality carefully wrapped in tender and chaste love and these two lonely spirits still full of childhood innocence growing together as they learn mutual commitment and turning into adults. i showed the film to a group of school youngsters and they abounded with such simplistic and cynical comments regarding it as naïve and foolish. guys and be serious. cinema is an art and as art it reflects not only human emotions but historical moments. and this is exactly what friends does in a masterly way. it reflects an idyllic idea of rebellion and new beginning we all dreamt about when we were 15. i am now a musician and i feel some of us and artists for that matter and still dream about it. how else could we live. that friends and that brother sun sister moon and that hair. those were the times and still alien to aids and alien to explicit and vulgar texts in pop songs with no melody and to pornography presented as sexuality and to this barbaric new world order growing after september 11th. what a heart warming experience to see paul and michelle again and timidly and tenderly exploring the new fantasies of their romantic world. what a trip back to the very core of our hearts represent to paris and to elton john at his best and to that urban scenario surrounded by 2 cv citroëns and the vw beetles. what a fresh air from the peaceful cottage in camargue and surrounded by fishing ponds and wild horses. they made us who we are and as did serrat in spain and brel in france and peter paul and mary and joan baez and luther king and the beatles and the early bee gees and belafonte spirituals and gandhi and the gospel of elvis. people still hoping represent get this picture. start with innocence and grow from there. you will find out what it all about. and from there you will have a solid and more truthful foundation while some ideals to look for in life and a way to handle personal and world affairs. we need so much of this today. give yourselves the chance and maybe someday the time of cynics will end. (i have an extra vhs copy)santiago zuleta. bogotá and colombia. 
well. i do not want to lecture anybody but i do feel the urge to say some things i consider important about this beautiful film. i saw it for the first time in 1976 (i was 14) and then one more time a year later. that was it. the rest of it was the pink lp of elton john soundtrack getting the music and the story deeper and deeper inside my heart. how deep. a week ago my cousin gave me a vhs copy as a present. (no dvd yet). boy. was i surprised. poets have always sustained that deep childhood and adolescent experiences of beauty and love and god and idealist pursuits and stay with you forever. since they occur mostly at the heart level (no intellect yet. ) and they define your soul contours like a sculptor would do with a stone. if sometimes we do not tend to forget how right they are perhaps we would do better in understanding the meaning of every minute and of every decision and of every turning point of our lives. so and i confess i feel nostalgia. but the fascinating part of this is watching the film again and and through this trip back in time and enriching that understanding of why we and people from the 60  and grew up as we did. the spirit of those times is all here represent a genesis created far from the official world of consuming and economic success and make love not war and the beautiful pop ballads and the poetry of the lyrics and a totally romantic view of adolescent rebellion with the awakening of sexuality carefully wrapped in tender and chaste love and these two lonely spirits still full of childhood innocence growing together as they learn mutual commitment and turning into adults. i showed the film to a group of school youngsters and they abounded with such simplistic and cynical comments regarding it as naïve and foolish. guys and be serious. cinema is an art and as art it reflects not only human emotions but historical moments. and this is exactly what friends does in a masterly way. it reflects an idyllic idea of rebellion and new beginning we all dreamt about when we were 15. i am now a musician and i feel some of us and artists for that matter and still dream about it. how else could we live. that friends and that brother sun sister moon and that hair. those were the times and still alien to aids and alien to explicit and vulgar texts in pop songs with no melody and to pornography presented as sexuality and to this barbaric new world order growing after september 11th. what a heart warming experience to see paul and michelle again and timidly and tenderly exploring the new fantasies of their romantic world. what a trip back to the very core of our hearts represent to paris and to elton john at his best and to that urban scenario surrounded by 2 cv citroëns and the vw beetles. what a fresh air from the peaceful cottage in camargue and surrounded by fishing ponds and wild horses. they made us who we are and as did serrat in spain and brel in france and peter paul and mary and joan baez and luther king and the beatles and the early bee gees and belafonte spirituals and gandhi and the gospel of elvis. people still hoping represent get this picture. start with innocence and grow from there. you will find out what it all about. and from there you will have a solid and more truthful foundation while some ideals to look for in life and a way to handle personal and world affairs. we need so much of this today. give yourselves the chance and maybe someday the time of cynics will end. (i have an extra vhs copy)santiago zuleta. bogotá and colombia. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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