Decision day
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Decision day |
| Original title | Big Wednesday |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Milius |
| script | John Milius, Dennis Aaberg |
| production | Buzz Feitshans |
| music | Basil Poledouris |
| camera | Bruce Surtees |
| cut |
Carroll Timothy O'Meara , Robert L. Wolfe |
| occupation | |
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Decision Day (Original title: Big Wednesday ) is a film by the director John Milius , shot in 1978 in the USA . It covers the growing up of three friends in California in the 1960s and 1970s.
action
Decision Day describes the friendship of the three best friends and surfers Matt, Jack and Leroy over the years 1962 to 1974. The film also deals with contemporary events, such as the Vietnam War . The individual life cycles are symbolized by the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The story of the friendship between three young men, which is primarily linked by their love of surfing, is told over a period of twelve years (1962–1974) in four stations. 1962: Matt, Jack and Leory on their first love adventures on the beach, their wild parties. Three years later when he was drafted to be called up to Vietnam. While Matt and Leory manage to hide, Jack has to go to the soldiers. When he returns from the war, the world has changed from before. His childhood sweetheart married someone else, his friends are older and adapted. It is the process of slow failure, a creeping adjustment to the forms of life that bourgeois society demands of its members. One becomes a drinker, a lifeguard and the third is sometimes a rich entrepreneur, sometimes just broke. One day the three of them meet again for a big surf festival to show the younger ones what kind of guys they still are: On that Wednesday there is a swell like it has never been seen before in the Pacific.
criticism
“Largely superficial conversation with weak approaches to psychological and time-critical deepening. Outstanding are the above-average performances of the young actors and the impressive shots of the sea. "
“This film is really a welcome change from the deadly boring creations that are coming out of Hollywood these days, I don't mind being taken on a trip with more intellectual depth these days - it's probably because I'm just getting older. The best thing about the film is that it shows that old men were once young too by capturing the time we all went through. "
Web links
- Day of the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Decision Day on This Distracted Globe
Individual evidence
- ↑ Decision Day in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on June 16, 2009
- ^ This Distracted Globe , accessed June 16, 2009