Title: Investigation of a Flame is a tribute to an urgent idea
Review: Informative and visually exciting, Lynne Sachs's documentary shows the power of protest and re-ignited my interest in a period when Americans were so personally involved in politics that they risked their safety and personal freedom for the sake of humanist ideals. In particular, Investigation of a Flame is a testament to the idea, "Protest is patriotic," a characteristically American idea that our country nonetheless loses sight of whenever it's most urgent to keep it in focus. Her film illuminates an important, and lesser known, episode in that period and helps me imagine that we might, at the grass-roots level, stand up again against politicians who advocate violence and death.
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