If names such as Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, Naomi Jaffe and Brian Flanagan mean nothing to you, you'll definitely want to see the thought-provoking documentary, The Weather Underground.
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Two brothers, Hyuk and Bin, live in a small coal mining village. Hyuk, the younger of the two, works hard as a coal miner to make ends meet. On the other hand, Bin becomes a slave to gambling and leads a wretched life. Bin soon becomes a casualty of a greedy gangster named Gang-ho who wants to reshape the mine for profit-making facilities. Hyuk enters the world of underground fight ring to avenge the wrongful death of his brother.
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The Weather Underground leaves the viewer with many questions. To the filmmakers' credit, most of them are the right and urgent ones to ask.
Directors Sam Green and Bill Siegel expertly limn the forces that gave rise to Weatherman and clearly sympathize with the group's motivations. At the same time, they don't stint on Weatherman's follies.
Whose side the documentarians are on is never clear -- in a muddy rather than an ambiguous way. Did anyone die from the Weathermen's bombings? We don't find out here.
An eye-opening look at idealism taken to extremes during one of the most turbulent periods of American history.
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