John Lennon animated-peaceful-revolutionary

I grew up listening to the Beatles as pop phenomena rather than political idea. Since then I have learned a bit more about their influence outside of music. Here is a poignant description of the value of keeping the "rooms and machinery" when engaged in revolution, instead of "smashing" it all down. Here is a brilliant animated short film of a 1969 interview: I met the walrus...

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit, and timeless message.

"We are all violent inside...We are all Hitler inside...We are all Christ inside" - John Lennon

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