Review of Gimme Shelter (1970) by Chris D — 08 May 2014

A documentary-film which basically revolves around the many problems that Their Satanic Majesties were dealing with during the 1969 US Tour. The film moves with wit and grace and captures the audience with an intelligent, morbid purpose: to show the killing of Meredith Hunter, a young black man whose assassination, led by a racist, hatred member of the Hells Angels, signified the decadence and the end of the Hippie counter-culture movement.

It is impressive to see Jagger failing in his attempt to keep people calm during the show, as well as young Tina Turner's performance before the band. But its most astonishing detail is at the end, in which we see a symbolic sunset followed by a disgusted crowd of Rolling Stones Hippie fans questioning themselves, trying to answer how hypocrite is the condition of human nature.