Fame (1980 film)

To those not in the know, here's a link to the Wikipedia article about the film.
I submitted a very similar comment at the film's IMDb discussion board.

Saw it on Turner Classic Movies, I think since the part of the musical rumble in the cantina.

What I found to be so incredible, or perhaps really interesting, is that this is the kind of film that might mark an era in many, mostly positive ways. Not a Christmas movie, but perhaps something to be aired once school is (finally) out. Maybe it is aired at that time.

What had me interested were the hairdos, the clothes, the music, kids' attitudes and all of them listening to that music and wearing some of what was to become the mainstream fashion well into the 1980's. The cars of the period, too.

As I kept watching (while missing some parts for the snacks, because TCM doesn't play ads inside the movies), the things that made the film interesting were the trends in diversity that we now seem to take for granted almost everywhere throughout the nowadays' TV- and movie-land.

The film stays faithful to the title subject and the adage of how there are people who are artists and those that want to be artists (or someone at all).

And then, the movie is still about the youth of that time. Being 27 myself, it was a year before I was born (behind the iron curtain, no less). So for me it served as something of a revelation about how the ostensibly average young people of 29 years ago lived and interacted, what were their thoughts and dreams and what did they do to realize their dreams.