The Pyramid

Incoherent indie film from the 70s. There's three or four different pieces to this movie, and they never come together. The protagonist is a TV news field reporter in Dallas who becomes interested in some hippy-dippy New Age theories thanks to his hippy-dippy New Age girlfriend. There is also a subplot (or is this the plot and everything else is a subplot?) about him wanting to cover real stories that really matter about real people, and he clashes with the "if it bleeds, it leads" head of the newsroom. Then there's his troubled friend. Then there are moments of violence covered by the newsroom. Then there's this group therapy that seems to involve submitted to verbal abuse. There are also country songs, performed at a bar. There is an astronaut who does experiments to prove that ESP is real. There is a guy who is upset that the city wants him to move his pig nature preserve, which he maintains as a public service for the kids (?).

It is not a *terrible* movie, esp. if you like the earthy 70s look and fashions. The most striking part of the movie is a drive through Dealey Plaza, the site of the JFK assassination. You see the grassy knoll, the book depository, etc., and there's no dialogue, or any mention that it's Dealey Plaza. The scene has no payoff -- nothing in the movie has a payoff -- but it is eerie and creates an air of foreboding, for a couple minutes.