It's easy to imagine that the elevator pitch for The Sea Beast was “ Moby Dick meets How to Train Your Dragon”-and who wouldn’t be compelled by that? Set in a fantasy world where oceanic leviathans terrorize humanity, those who hunt down the giant monsters are lauded as heroes. Director Aaron Sorkin takes a lot of liberties with historical facts (and leaves out some hilarious bits, like poet Allen Ginsberg’s testimony, which would have made for a showstopper), but The Trial of the Chicago 7 largely succeeds in conveying the sense of generational score-settling the court battle came to signify. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr and Vietnam still devouring thousands of young people-and it came to encapsulate the tensions tearing the country’s social fabric asunder. Johnson’s presidency-with the US reeling from the assassinations of John F.
The trial happened at the very end of Lyndon B. As anti-war, civil rights, and hippie activists involved in the protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the Seven (theoretically eight) were picked as convenient scapegoats after the unrest was crushed at the behest of Mayor Richard Daley. If you’re not an American boomer, the juxtaposition of the city of Chicago and the number 7 might mean little to you, but the formula stands for one of the causes célèbres of the ’60s.
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