i swore i would never allow myself to devolve into to the bogus authority figure of the sixty who tell me thing be well in the good old day the current australian prime minister be a sordid example of just such a mind set . but i switch over to a decade under the influence because i find watch the much herald sneaker documentary on the other channel such a dispiriting experience . i find the value express by the sneaker interviewees too ugly to accept a reasonable . so materialistic . so devoid of any sense of outrage at a society that can countenance kill someone to steal his very ugly shoe . so lack in any worthwhile purpose that they can report without distaste the exploitation an audience by harangue them to hold those shoe above their head to lock in a sponsorship deal for themselves with a company of cobbler be just too much to continue watch . a decade under the influence depict a completely different response to the fruit of stupidity and corruption and concupiscence in high ( and low ) place . i have note the change in film making that accompany the exposure of america disastrous foreign policy debacle in vietnam and so many less reported place in my www . peterhenderson . com . au website . a decade under the influence document the precise moment at which that change take place . before the seventy and the armed force be depict in american film a an invincible fighting force comprise of decent human being who transmogrify into conquer hero on the battlefield . after the seventy they be generally portray a a dispirited rabble mislead by a bunch of bureaucrat clown in the pentagon before the seventy and the fbi agent and the honest cop tend to be depict a your friend and protector . after the seventy and the fbi agent be all incompetent and the best a cop could aspire to be to ignore their foolishness and his superior corruption and uphold justice in his own idiosyncratic manner . before the seventy and the archetypical american little guy and the average joe and the jimmy stewart type would face down the problem encounter and thereby gain some insight into underlying wisdom of his elected leader and justice of the american way . after the seventy and kevin costner usurps that role and but now he be the voice of one cry out in the wilderness for evil to be expose and or accept his lot and make out the best he can . and now those old time religion mindset have be strip of any honesty and righteousness and portrayed ( with a certain amount of justification ) a sanctimonious bigotry and self serve hypocrisy . a decade under the influence tell it like it be . a decade under the influence tell it like it be now . it depict the redemption of the american film industry from the hand of the artistically and morally and intellectually bankrupt studio mogul . it show the storming of the hollywood bastille by the independent film maker who promise to get a disillusioned and tired audience back into the cinema . the fact that their failure be numerous and and at time disastrous and merely underline the greatness of their achievement . an achievement reflect in the adventurous and question attitude of the big box office star such a clooney and daman and affleck etc and the director and producer who provide the vehicle for their talent .