I first saw this on TV in the mid 70s. Yes TV was a very different proposition back then. As a study of generational alienation it is a masterpiece. Sandy is a 70s teenager of 1950s working class parents. They are completely unable to help or understand her rebellion. Once she is carrying an illegitimate child she becomes a problem. All of the brutal tools of 70s social control are here. The church, the normal person and finally psychiatric services / electrotherapy.
Even as a teenager I felt horrified at how society could demonise a young woman. This film sums up the bleak fag end of the hippie movement and how little attitudes had changed.
No one would or could make a film like this in 2023. But it planted seeds of tolerance in some. Unfortunately society has changed, the empathy this film engendered has withered under the fight to find enough to eat. Sad but essential viewing to view the social care movement crushed.
Even as a teenager I felt horrified at how society could demonise a young woman. This film sums up the bleak fag end of the hippie movement and how little attitudes had changed.
No one would or could make a film like this in 2023. But it planted seeds of tolerance in some. Unfortunately society has changed, the empathy this film engendered has withered under the fight to find enough to eat. Sad but essential viewing to view the social care movement crushed.