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Peter Bart Puts Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Chicago 7’ On Trial & Contrasts It With Last Yippie Film, Haskell Wexler’s ‘Medium Cool’

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Peter Bart Editor-At-LargeAaron Sorkin tends to build movies around disturbing ideas rather than empathetic protagonists, thus revisiting tense courtrooms and raucous newsrooms.

The price: Sometimes the characters get buried by the rhetoric.His new movie, The Trial of the Chicago 7, opens this week at a propitious time when “serious” cinephiles are complaining about the absence of ‘serious’ films.Sorkin’s provocative film will likely satisfy that appetite: Chicago 7 offers an unrelenting glimpse of 1960s turmoil, its yippies, revolutionaries and random exhibitionists, all of it steeped in contemporary subtext.

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