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Characterization

But the film ultimately
characterizes the
counterculture as
psychologically real and
realistically superficial. Fritz,
in an echo of the blatant
anti-intellectualism of the
romantic left, culminates a
tirade against school and books
by a mass-burning of written
material, only to discover to
his horror that he's destroyed
the notes for his exam. He
preaches comic book
revolution, only to discover
that repression uses real
bullets. He talks about the
need for love and equality, but
grabs at everything with two
breasts and (literally) a tail.
Like many of us who become
too immersed in their own
culture, "Fritz" can't see
beyond his own role.

(Now at University Theater)