‘Breakdown 1975’ on Netflix

Adam and Tina are thoroughly enjoying Netflix’s documentary, ‘Breakdown 1975′.

Adam: And Tina and I were watching yesterday; we just came across it on Netflix, Breakdown 1975, which is…

John: Ooh, is it good?

Adam: Yeah, it’s very good.

John: Something I can watch?

Adam: Yes.

John: I’ve been watching Australian murder mysteries; it’s how bad it’s gotten.

So Breakdown 1975 is, it’s really, it’s a fractal is what it is. You’ll love it because they look at the year 1975 from a popular culture point of view. So movies and television primarily. And when you look at that time, it was so similar. We had scandals, we had Watergate, New York was a shithole, rats were everywhere. This is where movies come out like Taxi Driver, you know, Death Wish, Charles Bronson.

John: Blackboard Jungle.

Adam: Black, yeah, all of this stuff. And it’s very analogous to now, with the exception that it’s probably not quite as bad today as it was then. And what came out of this…

Yet, yeah. Well, and so maybe we’re a little bit late because by 1976, things started to change. And before you knew it, we had yuppies and we had, you know, Jane Fonda was doing workout videos, but it’s worth watching. It’s narrated by Jodie Foster, who was in Taxi Driver as I think a 13-year-old. And, oh, and they pinpointed it. This was interesting. They pinpointed, so they had Jaws. Jaws was a big change where they shifted from the bad guy winning to the good guy winning and blowing up the shark. And then as they claim in this, in this documentary kind of…

John: Yes, there was a period of time in the movies, especially where the anti-hero. Yes. Was the key. Was the winner. Epitomized by Steve McQueen in a number of films.

Watch Breakdown 1975 on Netflix.

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