ONE TO ONE JOHN & YOKO – The year is 1971. John & Yoko have fled London and begun life in New York City in their small Greenwich Village apartment which they will inhabit until moving to the Dakota in 1973. Produced by their son, Sean Ono Lennon, and Brad Pitt, it is an interesting snapshot of the US at that time. Political unrest is raging over the Vietnam war. Young people are rising up in defiance of the establishment. Nixon is president, and John & Yoko have become huge outspoken activists for peace. Snippets of current events in 1971 are peppered among commercials and tv shows popular at the time revealing a huge disconnect between the lives of everyday Americans and the violent chaos in the country and the world. Live footage from the Lennons’ One to One concert to raise funds for the retarded children of Willowbrook State School is included. For me, the most interesting segments were phone recordings of John & Yoko speaking to various folks involved with their peace movement. Quite the history lesson for those of us who lived through it and those of us born too late to experience it….although it is a vivid reminder that we are repeating much of the same behavior in our country now. Cheers! Boyfriends/Girlfriends – 0.

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