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John and Yoko's Year of Peace      List Price : $9.99 USD        Your Price : $9.99 USD      ProductGroup: DVD      Actor(s): Laurie Brown, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Jerry Levitan, Pierre Trudeau      Director(s): Paul McGrath Movie      Release Date : 2002-09-17      Studio : Image Entertainment      Label : Image Entertainment      Avg. Customer Rating : (5 reviews)      Running Time : 52

Reviews Customer Reviews for John And Yoko S Year Of Peace      Rigorous Naivete, Fearless Pacifism      Rating:      I ordered this DVD on a whim: I doubted I would be able to take it seriously, but I have. I've watched it several times and probably will be watching it again. One of the things I find interesting and instructive is the good account John Lennon always gives for what he's doing and why he is doing it. He's fearlessly honest and to the point -- he doesn't lie or beat around the bush or unable to articulate the reasons why he has chosen one course of action over another. It's not the way I expected someone whose protests took the form of a "bed-in" to think. He's extremely sober and shrewd and with-it...There's no hazy hippy, here. This really comes over in Lennon's encounter with Al Capp, documentary footage of which is included on the DVD. Capp wishes to think of himself as the hardheaded and clear-thinking pragmatist, and to regard Lennon as the freaked-out even if well-meaning flake. But as I view this footage, Capp comes off as a blustering,ill-spirited cupcake, while Lennon is tough and practical and even I would say, disciplined. Capp tries to accuse Lennon of being hypocritical in taking a position of condoning some kinds of violence on the part of protesters; Lennon had condoned no forms of violence-- he lets Capp know this. Capp tries to pooh-pooh Lennon's disclaimer, but the poop lands all over Capp's face. At the very end of the film, someone asks Lennon if he thinks what he's doing can be effective, if he can make a difference. He says he doesn't know. He remarks that back at the Cavern if someone had asked him if he was going to make it, he wouldn't have known either. He didn't know if the Beatles were going to make it-- he only knew that the Beatles had something. Lennon's peace activities had something....It won't harm us at this time and in our current context to remember he did.     Customer Reviews for John And Yoko S Year Of Peace Cd      I Miss Idealism      Rating:      This documentary rates 4 stars instead of 5 only because it is less than an hour long. Much more could have been included, even restricting the story to 1969, the year John & Yoko staged their Bag-In, two Bed-Ins, got married and recorded "Give Peace A Chance." The story of how quite possibly the world's biggest star devoted his celebrity to fighting against a war halfway around the world -- a war he had no financial reasons to oppose -- is continued on the DVD of "The U.S. Vs. John Lennon." These two movies together make a nice overview of the idealism on the era, when two pop stars thought they could end the war by willing it. Naive optimism, idealism, "you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one." One naive optimist is worth a thousand jaded cynics.