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 The Trip (DVD)
Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 1967 / Suitable for 18 years and over / Director: Roger Corman / Actors: Peter ... more  The Trip (DVD) ... Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper, Salli Sachse ... / DVD released 2004-04-05 at MGM Entertainment / Features of the DVD: PALNewest Review: ... It really all comes down to décor, music and, er, trippyness. The décor is amazing - there are so many wonderful examples of ... more ... hippie interior decorating, all of which would give you a migraine if you actually lived in them. Beads, baubles, great big splodges of colour everywhere - it's a nightmare vision of a very peculiar aesthetic utopianism that could never have caught on if you weren't on acid.
The music suffers somewhat by not being famous. The 60s counterculture is heavily identified with certain bands, but I guess Corman was too cheap to invest in any 'real' music (also, 1967 was slightly early for a lot of the really iconic 60...more |
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The Trip (DVD): Listen to the sound of love. Feel purple. Taste green. Touch ... (977 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 12.04.08 (Very useful, 64 readings)
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A review of the MGM DVD. This is a fabulous drug film from 1967. It was made by low-budget king Roger Corman, who had moved on from gothic horror to films aimed more explicitly at a youth audience keen to experience counterculture at a safe distance. It's one of the best psychedelic films ever made. An uptight advertising director, Paul, takes some LSD, watched over by his friend John. And, er, that's it. The film is essentially a lengthy sequence of psychedelic effects of varying intensity, interspersed with hippie blather about the death of the self and what have you. It will more than likely try the patience of anyone who doesn't like retro drug ...
