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The Secret Disco Revolution (2012)
Sucked
This movie sucks. If you have a basic knowledge of the Disco era, this movie offers no new information but alludes to a new perspective which it fails to demonstrate and eventually abandons.
The movie offers less info than a Wikipedia article about the origins of Disco, the first Disco hit, major disco DJs, producers, etc. It's like watching an infomercial for piles of Disco CDs. Skimming the surface of interesting information. with a twist. A weird framing device.
The whole premise is that Disco was revolutionary for gays, blacks and women. So they have a gay, a black, and a woman acting as "the masterminds" while a kitschy voice-over explains their actions as though they were gods with a Disco based agenda.
These are annoying characters and their purpose seems to be to support the claims made in Alice Echols' book "Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture." But the scholar Alice Echols is presented as a joke, with heavy focus on unsubstantiated academic over-reaching.
It seems possible that the Disco era had a social impact, but calling it a "Disco Revolution" and adding that bullshit framing device is the filmmaker's cute way of saying, he's not sure he believes it.
Highlight of the movie: interviews with Ronald Kool Bell and Nicky Siano.