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Although a well-crafted documentary can achieve some considerable force to reconsider certain facts in history, there are an equal number that are merely not worth bothering with.
‘The U.S. Vs John Lennon’ is well made and educational to anyone who may have missed or noticed the large and vast expanse of dark matter both in music and the Universe in general, which seemed to appear since the end of the eighties.
With very little new information, but undoubtedly enough of an approach to the subject to suggest that both John Lennon and Yoko Ono at one time, had some considerable weight to manage certain results, to a positive outcome.
Covering the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War, and areas of political activity from radical to left wing and right wing in America, it is an interesting enough piece of work.
Yet, the documentary itself keeps well enough to its subject, it rarely provokes at anything that may be considered worthy of attention outside the subject arena.
Why on Earth a documentary filmmaker, has not approached Julian Lennon as a subject, is surely worth some consideration. He is alive at least and staggeringly interesting, talented and perhaps David Leaf and John Schienfiend could at least attempt to try and deliver something that is not a complete repeated viewing of past events.
Better still, why not take some advice from Nick Broomfield and put your energy into something worthy of some serious provocation. The kids will love you for it.
