Plot Summary:In 1970, 1,500 hippies and their guru Stephen Gaskin founded a commune in rural Tennessee. Members forked over their savings, grew their own food, delivered their babies at home and built a self-sufficient society. Raised in this alternative community by a Jewish mother from Beverly Hills and a Puerto Rican father from the Bronx, filmmakers and sisters Rena and Nadine return for the first time since leaving in 1985. Finally ready to face the past after years of hiding their upbringing, they chart the rise and fall of America's largest utopian socialist experiment and their own family tree. The nascent idealism of a community destroyed, in part, by its own success is reflected in the personal story of a family unit split apart by differences. American Commune finds inspiration in failure, humor in deprivation and, most surprisingly, that communal values are alive and well in the next generation.
意外地好看。The Farm in TN is the world's largest and most long lived hippie commune, originally led by Stephen Gaskin. 个人主线也很感，姐妹俩通过探寻这个自己长大的神奇社区也对自己的身份认同和家庭感情有了更深的理解，最后Nardine得癌家人短暂团聚+大家庭支持简直是个现实中的大团圆结局
意外地好看。The Farm in TN is the world's largest and most long lived hippie commune, originally led by Stephen Gaskin. 个人主线也很感，姐妹俩通过探寻这个自己长大的神奇社区也对自己的身份认同和家庭感情有了更深的理解，最后Nardine得癌家人短暂团聚+大家庭支持简直是个现实中的大团圆结局
很好看，资料充足。 有几个片段让我联想到自己小时候呆的地方，虽然性质不一样，这部片子里的社区是Hippies的实验性公社，我的老地方是个半山之上的单位村落。但半隔绝于世，以及集体生活的体验会是永久的烙印。长久以来的愿望：在有生之年自己能为我长大的地方写本书或者拍个纪录片。