1969: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Bob & Carol go on a weekend seminar about self-actualization, or whatever you want to call it, and swallow the stuff hook, line and sinker, returning to tell their friends Ted & Alice, another wealthy couple that they want to know about their honest feelings. Within five minutes, Carol also goes on record saying that nobody should ever do anything to make other people feel degraded, so you can see a tension there; and if I had written the screenplay, within fifteen minutes there would have been violence, nuclear weapons and all. The actual film, perhaps to its credit, stays more ambivalent, though. Not a great movie, but certainly interesting, and very 1969. (6.5)