Day in America, A (Part I) (1968)

★★★★ · Superficial Patriotism · srogers · 2003-02-27

This film tries to weave together a wide variety of slices of American life into a patriotic theme, but it never explicitly names any principle behind America, nor what might threaten it. Concrete examples of people with enough to eat, freedom to work, learn, and worship as they choose are artfully threaded together to give the gut feeling that America is a good place, but without making any argument or raising intellectual issues that would spoil the mood. This is an interesting contrast with pro-America films of the 50's that draw upon history and ideology to make a case that one could…

★★ · Evolution · pjones · 2005-07-19

The way this film is assembled is almost like the photo montage seen in the movie The Parallax View. Although this film does have narration and moving images, they are thrown together in what looks like an effort to elicit a gut reaction from the viewer. Notice how you see small segments about the military. Not too long, but they're there.

★ · America The... boring? · Spuzz · 2003-04-15

In this quasi propagandistic film, life in america is shown, sometimes relentlessly and in as much heart tugging way possible, to show how proud we should be to live here dammit. Oh yeah, and we're in a war that everyone hates, and wouldnt you like to enlist and be a soldier? Plotless and sometimes boring, this is not really worthwile to sit through.