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Buckley’s words, while expressing
awe, also contain a classic backhanded
dismissal. Indeed, Goodman was the anti-
Buckley. He is best known for his 1960
book Growing Up Absurd, which argued
that the rise of juvenile delinquency was
not an epidemic to be quashed but a signal
that society itself was rotten. Old news now,
but at the time of publication Goodman’s
words were viewed by mainstream,
middle-class America as shocking, maybe
even dangerous.
Lee’s documentary is a love letter, and
if it waxes romantic in tone (Goodman
himself was a Romantic to the core),
it remains admirably unsentimental in
its candid portrait of this diffi cult man.
Unlike documentaries that take a more
archival and sequential approach, this fi lm
is structured around Goodman’s ideas and
their socio-cultural impact; Lee provides
the rough outlines of Goodman’s life —
a New York Jew, raised fatherless, taught
here and there, knew so and so — but he is
more concerned with the era of Goodman’s
greatest productivity and broadest success.
This he treats with the subtlety and depth
due a thinker of Goodman’s avidity and
infl uence.
Through footage of Goodman and
recent interviews with friends, family and
artists like Susan Sontag and Grace Paley,
a touching portrait emerges: The epitome
of the rumpled, tweedy professor with his
thick glasses and corncob pipe, Goodman
was that rarest of human beings: A restless
soul born fully awake and perpetually
dissatisfi ed with the hypocrisy, corruption
and violence surrounding him. He was
incapable of being other than what he was,
and his struggle for liberation was not
theoretical, but ceaseless and practical.
Lee’s documentary sets Goodman’s
achievements in the context of the ‘60s
student upheavals, and places him,
intellectually, in the company of such
legendary gadfl ies as Socrates and
Thoreau. It would be impossible to make
a boring documentary about such a wildly
engaged, intellectually vivacious person.
Lee, however, forgoes the easy path,
turning his documentary into a work of art
— a tribute as well as an elegy to where
we went wrong as a society — in this crazy
country where Kardashian and Ke$ha
are household names, while mention of
Goodman (no, not John, Paul) elicits a
confused shrug.
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starring Martin Sheen
ere is a generic yet timeless tale
of young readers turned on by an
author infl uential enough to have a
movie made about him: Born and raised in
a small town that always seemed cramped,
stagnant and terminally dull, our young man
senses that something is missing, and that he
is alone. He moves to the big city, where he
enrolls in community college and works part-
time at a coffee shop. His dreams snuggle
close to his chest: he wants to be a writer, and
he is gay.
These hidden hungers drive his search, his
need to devour and understand, and — living
among millions of souls in this seething
metropolis — he’s introduced to strange
worlds he never knew existed: exotic foods,
men dressed as women, drugs that make you
dance, books that would never be shelved in
his hometown library.
He reads voraciously, as though mapping
uncharted territory through zones of great
beauty and great danger. A customer at
the coffee shop hands him Henry Miller,
which leads him to Knut Hamsun, then onto
Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Reich and, fi nally,
Paul Goodman. When he reads Goodman,
it’s as though the author is whispering into
his ear, answering his every question — even
those he didn’t realize he had.
This story of discovery was common
among the disafl ected youth of the ‘50s and
‘60s, though these days not so much. A new
documentary by Jonathan Lee, Paul Goodman
Changed My Life, is a lovely introduction
to an utterly unclassifi able individual who
served as an early icon for those who rejected
the conformity, coercion and corruption of
post-war consumer America. An inspiration
to the New Left and co-founder of Gestalt
Therapy, an early voice against the Vietnam
War and a proudly out bisexual, Goodman
was one of his generation’s most charismatic
and polarizing fi gures.
As William F. Buckley noted while
introducing Goodman on Firing Line,
a television clip that opens Lee’s fi lm:
“Mr. Paul Goodman is, roughly speaking,
everything.” Buckley’s not kidding.
Brilliant, bisexual, inconvenient, practical, an
anarchist, novelist, poet, original, talkative,
reclusive, mischievous, a humanist, pacifi st,
playwright — just a few terms used to
describe this endlessly compelling and now
oddly forgotten fi gure.
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Paul Goodman Changed My Life: Directed
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JSLFilms, 2011. Not rated. 89 minutes.
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