Hair (1979)

Musical. Hair is a raucous celebration of hippie culture -- if you lived through those days -- but to modern folk it will play like a goofy otherworldly sketch that fails to explain why people dressed and acted like that. Twyla Tharp's choreography is amazing as always, the singing and acting is superb and the two lead actors (Treat Williams and John Savage) perform memorably. The hippie lifestyle just seems so anachronistic to a post-Enron, post-Goth, post-Columbine, post-9/11 etc. world. We have really lost our way from the idealism of the flower children, while we in this Bratz and Botox age laugh at their hair, clothing, hygiene and irreverence for capitalism. The final twist is a telling one and a brave message to remember during the Vietnam -- and Iraq, or any -- war. 4.5 stars.