The Sixties; Worship of the 1960's

JAMES MARRIOTT, August 20 2019, The Times:

“Say good riddance to worship of the Sixties. It may surprise Quentin Tarantino that a new generation is looking at the values of the decade with a critical eye”.

“I left the new Quentin Tarantino film feeling queasy...This time it was his almost pornographic glorification of the 1960s that left me bilious. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is set in Los Angeles in 1969 and it’s filled with loving, lingering shots of 1960s clothes, 1960s cars, 1960s hairstyles, 1960s television, 1960s soft furnishings. There’s even a montage of vintage fonts. Tarantino is hardly alone in his fetish. For a long time, the Sixties have had a stranglehold on contemporary culture…”

Letter to The Times, August 23, 2019:

I haven't seen the Tarantino film, but I did grow up in Castle Cary, and I went to three British universities (as undergraduate and postgraduate) during the 1960's. I note and respect the comments and I'll try to square the writers' criticisms with memories 

of my own experiences of the period (very different, albeit selective; I was 'there' too).