I had heard of Patty Hearst, the billionaire's daughter who sympathized with her abductors in the seventies, but never of this revolutionary girl, from a wealthy family, who fought to freedom, justice and equality among people, against racism and war in Vietnam during the same period. I was very touched by this story, really, Sissi Spacek was a great actress, and this role was perfect for her, she is so convincing here. I can understand why so many rich young people from this era fought against their parents's good fortune and the American, capitalist government. Those kids who had so much money to organize meetings against war. Those youngsters were actually bored with their lives, their problems free existences, those young people who searched for a meaning in their lives. They needed a goal to really exist, because without these fights, they were simply bored to death. If they had been sent in the Pacific twenty years earlier, they probably have been ignorant of those same ideas. Those young folks belonged to the post WW2 baby boom and were not from the same line. The sequence where Spacek' s character is rejected by the Black activist to whom she offers her help is so painful, so poignant to watch. This girl was not naive, she was on the contrary very realistic. I think the world needs more people like her. Those men and women are rare because beyond corruption and greed, beyond hate and cruelty. I love TV movies for this reason, they are so close to reality, more than most - not all, I insist - of the cinema, big screen features, which search for wide audiences in seek of amusement, Entertainment and big spectacular effects. But let's be fair, many movies for the big screen are Worth too on this field of social realism, but only maybe less than the TV industry may offer us.
Review of Katherine
