Kurt Vonnegut Jr. on Robert Altman's 'Nashville,' Cinema, and America's Bicentennial
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. reflects on Robert Altman's film "Nashville" in this 1975 Vogue essay, using the movie as a springboard to discuss America's bicentennial, the state of the nation, and the redemptive power of cinema. Vonnegut argues that the motion-picture camera may save or refresh humanity, and praises Altman's film as a shadow play revealing what America has become and where wisdom might be found.
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· 3 pulledThis is not a movie review. It is talk about a movie.
I used to think that our machines would kill all of us by and by. I now suspect that we may be rescued or at least refreshed by one of them, which is the motion-picture camera.
Nashville—a shadow play of what we have become and where we might look for wisdom.
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