ReGeneration

The documentary takes up the questions facing young people today and the indifference towards political and social matters that has grown in America. According to the film that indifference is not a trait of character but the product of certain forces; education, media and habits of consumption are each taken up inside the account. Among those who speak are academics, musicians and actors. The film argues a case and does not hide it; the picture it presents is the director’s own frame. The question of the account is how people learn what to be angry about. Instead of blaming young people the documentary looks at what has been offered to them, and that is the most careful part of the film. Phillip Montgomery’s eighty one minute American documentary was completed in 2010.