well . i wouldn not want to lecture anybody but i do feel the urge to say some thing i consider important about this beautiful film . i saw it for the first time in 1976 ( i be 14 ) and then one more time a year later . that be it . the rest of it be the pink lp of elton john soundtrack get the music and the story deeper and deep inside my heart . how deep . a week ago my cousin give me a vhs copy a a present . ( no dvd yet ) . boy . be i surprised . poet have always sustain that deep childhood and adolescent experience of beauty and love and god and idealist pursuit and stay with you forever . since they occur mostly at the heart level ( no intellect yet . ) and they define your soul contour like a sculptor would do with a stone . if sometimes we do not tend to forget how right they be perhaps we would do good in understand the meaning of every minute and of every decision and of every turn point of our life . so and i confess i feel nostalgia . but the fascinating part of this be watch the film again and and through this trip back in time and enrich that understand of why we and people from the 60 and grow up a we do . the spirit of those time be all here represent a genesis create far from the official world of consume and economic success and make love not war and the beautiful pop ballad and the poetry of the lyric and a totally romantic view of adolescent rebellion with the awakening of sexuality carefully wrap in tender and chaste love and these two lonely spirit still full of childhood innocence grow together a they learn mutual commitment and turn into adult . i show the film to a group of school youngster and they abound with such simplistic and cynical comment regard it a naïve and foolish . guy and be serious . cinema be an art and a art it reflect not only human emotion but historical moment . and this be exactly what friends do in a masterly way . it reflect an idyllic idea of rebellion and new begin we all dream about when we be 15. i be now a musician and i feel some of u and artist for that matter and still dream about it . how else could we live . that friends and that brother sun sister moon and that hair . those be the time and still alien to aid and alien to explicit and vulgar text in pop song with no melody and to pornography present a sexuality and to this barbaric new world order grow after september 11th . what a heart warm experience to see paul and michelle again and timidly and tenderly explore the new fantasy of their romantic world . what a trip back to the very core of our heart represent to paris and to elton john at his best and to that urban scenario surround by 2 cv citroëns and the vw beetle . what a fresh air from the peaceful cottage in camargue and surround by fish pond and wild horse . they make u who we be and a do serrat in spain and brel in france and peter paul and mary and joan baez and luther king and the beatles and the early bee gee and belafonte spiritual and gandhi and the gospel of elvis . people still hop represent get this picture . start with innocence and grow from there . you will find out what it all about . and from there you will have a solid and more truthful foundation while some ideal to look for in life and a way to handle personal and world affair . we need so much of this today . give yourselves the chance and maybe someday the time of cynic will end . ( i have an extra vhs copy ) santiago zuleta . bogotá and colombia .