An era

Medium Cool and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm are both films that are expressions of the times. Both films came out around the same time, Medium Cool in 1969 and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm in 1968, and both films played with acting and reality. The two films the stories of the time from different eyes. Medium Cool used journalists, the voice of a society, to tell a story of change and social chaos. As in a news story, the narration is very direct. You have your main characters, settings in which important events take place, such as the convention. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm is told from the inside of the youth culture in the later 1960s. The narration of the story is winding, choppy and seems as if there's no direction. The style of both of these films directly reflect from which part of society each film exposes. Medium Cool's style is more "mature" and formal. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm is the summer of love children because it was put out before the event happened. Since it was made before 1969 could come to an end and commentary could define the movement, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm was a true commentary of the time, as real as the "actor" within the movie. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm's story telling is relaxed and unorthodox, their "actors" are real in real situations that gave the film a very natural tone. Medium Cool used the real situations with actors, unbeknown to those around them, to try and create the feel of Symbiopsychotaxiplasm's crew. By having the film come out of 1969 and using more rehearsed scenes, Medium Cool could only be a commentary on a movement that has died under the media's eyes. The closing shot of the journalist's death in Medium Cool emphasizes that statement. Medium Cool was a movie that showed the death of a generation that Symbiopsychotaxiplasm didn't see coming.