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Title: Sadness...
Review: From the near-Olympian hindsight of 30 years, what else can this impassioned, elegiac film inspire in us 60s-survivors but sadness? Not only has the film aged, but so have we all. All those who can no longer grasp the point of this film - leave them alone. They'll never get it. But if you - like me - have lived long enough to see your radicalism shrivel into conformism, to see your youthful ideals replaced with middle-aged complaisance, or to see your teenaged sweetheart inflate into someone else's frowzy wife (just as you yourself grew into someone's frowzy husband), then "Vanishing Point" will seem like a dirge. It makes you wonder why we all didn't drive our Dodges headlong into a bulldozer. But, then again, the highway is still there. . . .
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