SNF

After reading the article "The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack helped spread disco--and kill it," the movie itself has become much more to me than just some 70's film my parents showed me.  I can now see how it helped to define a generation.  The article explains that disco was already at its peak, or even possibly passed it, at the time the movie was released in 1977.  However, what made he movie different from the disco culture that everyone was used to seeing, was that it showed how disco was a form of escape for a working class boy from Brooklyn.  For the main character Tony, going to the club on Saturday nights was his way of forgetting his parents, his friends, and his future as a hardware store employee.  The article quotes one of Tony's best lines and states, "There are ways of killing yourself without killing yourself."  This spoke to me, and I think that it can speak to every generation.  It is basically saying that if you aren't careful, you can find yourself with a job or a life that doesn't allow you to truly feel alive.  This was Tony's problem, but going to the clubs and being the best dancer is what got him through the week and what got his adrenaline pumping.  As for the soundtrack to the movie, the article explains why it was considered the disco album to many buyers.  It stayed at number one on Billboard's album charts for a little over half a year, and it had one of the 10 biggest selling LP's of all time.  Despite the fact that bellbottoms were packed away and the genre of disco is a term of the past,  Saturday Night Fever and its soundtrack will forever represent a generation that was "unwilling to let economic uncertainty and social divisions keep them from having fun."  It is a great movie with great music that showcases an even greater era.