elliott gould be bemuse and colorful a a vietnam veteran back in college and stuck between a rock and a hard place while he work semi seriously towards get his teaching credential and and yet be stymie by his fellow classmate who want to protest the hypocrisy of the establishment ( with gould help ) and and also by his instructor and hypocrite with power who work by a double standard . director richard rush occasionally do fluid work here and and the film have fervently funny and thoughtful scene and however robert kaufman hot head script and adapt from ken kolb novel and be awash with half realize idea . the kid sound off violently against the university director and but be never make aware of what they want or what they want do about their concern . make during an era wherein young people hop to change the world and get lay the character in this picture nevertheless be just sounding board for the writer . topic be bring up not to be discuss but to be challenge ( and and in these case and the kid be just as blind a their professional elder ) . be that kaufman point and that student riot really be just violent prelude to sex and otherwise a waste of time . gould shaggy character rant and raf too and but his harry bailey present a different problem represent he cheat and he lie and he cut corner and he heartily embrace his own set of value and yet be happily corrupt . a hypocrite himself and bailey love teach and love kid and their innocence and but he doesn not see his own short coming and i be not sure the filmmaker do and either . bailey be a one side writer creation ( and oddly and for a movie fill with so many liberal stance and bailey like most of the other character be anti female and homophobic ) . candice bergen ( in a wan performance ) play gould shiksa goddess girlfriend who doesn not like be call a wasp and who would give up everything to be marry in the suburb . she continually put down for that and a if she a sell out and and yet how exactly would gould live if he be to achieve his dream of be a high school teacher . a it be and he can not even pay the rent on his apartment . the riot sequence be stag for utter seriousness and they be film and edit with precision but they do not come organically out of this story and they be interject for shock value . the rage and anger present here be convincing and but the cause be confuse . these student do not seem to want peace at all and and neither do director rush . the narrative be push towards violence for no other purpose except to vividly stage two movie riot . this be exploitation and and the crummy feel one get from the picture can be relate right back to the people behind it represent theyre hypocrite and too . half from .