The Last Hippie Analysis

A 2011 American drama film directed by Jim Kohlberg, a script by Gwyn Lurie and Gary Marks which was premiered at Sundance Film Festival makes its directorial debut based on a true story and an essay titled "The Last Hippie" by neurologist Oliver Sacks, The Music Never Stopped is an adequately emotional look at the power of music therapy to trigger memories lost after brain surgery. The sentimental movie plays upon songs from the '60s by Bob Dylan, the Beatles and the Grateful Dead. A heart-warming movie where the generation gap between a father and son estranged by time and a severe medical condition, the sentimental pull of the film is hard to resist.

It all begins in the year 1986, when Lou Taylor Pucci stars as Gabriel and the parents acted by J.T. Simmons who plays the role as the father Henry Sawyer and Cara Seymour acts as Helen, the wife of Henry and mother of Gabriel. Helen receives a surprised phone call from the hospital about her son who is in coma. The un-healed wounds between

The initial idea was to stir Gabriel’s memory through an instinctual connection to the music. In the early stages, Henry insisted that Daly to begin treatment with tunes from his favorite band era, somewhat he once shared with his son. Unfortunately it did not work, then Daly has a feeling of playing music which are from 60’s. The moment she played "All You Need Is Love," from the famous band The Beatles it was a sudden trigger that goes off and Gabriel comes alive. He could recite episode and rhyme of when he first heard the song and what it meant to him. The science shows that when people are listening to the music, the music goes separately to the left side brain and the right side brain, which has the influence on stimulate the memory. When the sound bits, the stimulation through both side of the brain and enhance the ability of processing the new information and storing