Friday, July 6, 2018

‘Yellow Submarine’ At 50: The Beatles’ Candy-Colored Cartoon Utopia

“The fantastical story of the Pepperlanders and the Blue Meanie menace is resistance cinema in the truest sense, albeit in a register so idealistic it barges past the point of naïveté. … A children’s film about pacifism winning out over imperialist annihilation might seem an odd combination, but in the cannabis haze after the Summer of Love, nothing made more sense.”



Article source here:Arts Journal

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