Robert Altman's Nashville is a panoramic black comedy which follows 24 characters for 5 days in the country music capital of America. It's the purest expression of Altman's signature style - multiple characters, overlapping dialogue, reflection of real life through comic exaggeration. There is no lead character or central narrative - each of the two dozen characters are equally important. It's like a collection of short stories which, taken together, form a remarkably cohesive whole. It
reflects the paranoid political and cultural climate of post-Watergate, post-Vietnam America.
It contains numerous references to political assassination and was released a few months before the two failed attempts to assassinate President Ford.
The A.V. Club called it the film that defined the 70s.
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