It's 1957 and an American masterpiece is on trial in San Francisco. Howl, the film, depicts this terrible time through three interwoven threads: the turbulent personal experiences that lead a young Allen Ginsberg to discover his real artistic voice, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that mimics the poem's astounding uniqueness. All three combine to create a genre-defying mix that masterfully captures a watershed event in counterculture history—the creation of a counterculture.
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It's 1957 and an American masterpiece is on trial in San Francisco. Howl, the film, depicts this terrible time through three interwoven threads: the turbulent personal experiences that lead a young Allen Ginsberg to discover his real artistic voice, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that mimics the poem's astounding uniqueness. All three combine to create a genre-defying mix that masterfully captures a watershed event in counterculture history—the creation of a counterculture.
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