There Goes My Baby is another movie dealing with the magical reputation of the 60s generation. The movie passes in just a short period, but tries to capture what was going on in the whole decade. The main story is based on class of youngsters leaving the High School and preparing themselves to go to the adult life, which involves Universities for some, Army for others and "just hanging around" for the rest. This period of time is represented as "The Last Days of Paradise", an alternative title to the movie.
The plot goes showing the indecision, problems, obstacles and the general crisis lived by each of the many people portrayed. Themes like Vietnam War, racial conflicts, hippie movement, counterculture, parents and sons clash of generation and sexual revolution are portrayed without much depth, usually using one or two characters to explore these facts of the 60s generation, but never going deeper in the questions.
Apart from these subjects, the movie uses a local burger restaurant that will be demolished to give place to a new shopping mall and a radio DJ that will change from AM to FM, broadcasting his program from the restaurant, as symbols of "the end of innocence".
Everything in the movie is used to emphasize the idea of change in the lives of the youngsters, and their lives are have a semi-heroic portrait, including some drama, but after all naive. In the end, the characters start separating, going each one his way and the narrator (one of the characters) talk about the destiny of everyone in the future, adding magic, naiveté and nostalgia to "The Last Days of Paradise", when confronting the future (adulthood) to those days.
Being so, the history isn't deep or complex, the actors are not superb, just competent and it is a movie to enjoy the two hours watching to it and nothing more, but at least grants enjoyment during its length. And the soundtrack is very good.
The plot goes showing the indecision, problems, obstacles and the general crisis lived by each of the many people portrayed. Themes like Vietnam War, racial conflicts, hippie movement, counterculture, parents and sons clash of generation and sexual revolution are portrayed without much depth, usually using one or two characters to explore these facts of the 60s generation, but never going deeper in the questions.
Apart from these subjects, the movie uses a local burger restaurant that will be demolished to give place to a new shopping mall and a radio DJ that will change from AM to FM, broadcasting his program from the restaurant, as symbols of "the end of innocence".
Everything in the movie is used to emphasize the idea of change in the lives of the youngsters, and their lives are have a semi-heroic portrait, including some drama, but after all naive. In the end, the characters start separating, going each one his way and the narrator (one of the characters) talk about the destiny of everyone in the future, adding magic, naiveté and nostalgia to "The Last Days of Paradise", when confronting the future (adulthood) to those days.
Being so, the history isn't deep or complex, the actors are not superb, just competent and it is a movie to enjoy the two hours watching to it and nothing more, but at least grants enjoyment during its length. And the soundtrack is very good.