Movie review – “Guerrilla” (2004) ***1/2

Engrossing documentary about the Patty Hearst cast, not made with Heart’s co-operation but it does have interviews with members of the SLA. The late 60s and early 70s must have been a wild time in America, with Nixon and company the worst example of conservatism and left wing nutters running around. It’s fascinating how influenced the SLA were by the movies – growing up on Zorro and Robin Hood, then later State of Siege – they got together during radical film night. A silly organisation, whose first notable act was to shoot a black man, they went down in a blaze of gunfire. Patty Hearst did not co-operate with the film and the filmmakers take a more jaundiced view of her interpretation of events than usual.