CSNY/Déjà Vu is a film that documents the Crosby Stills Nash & Young 2006 tour on Neil Young’s Living With War album.
Very few songs are played to the full extent – the film concentrates on the timelessness of the musical protests against an ongoing unpopular war. Parallels to the Vietnam war (and the Kent State shooting of 1970) are not left to the audience, the movie is explicit in its message.
The audience reactions, especially in Atlanta to Let’s Impeach the President vary expectedly – some see the rabble-rousing lyrics as nothing short of high treason, whereas others think that it is vital to be able to question authority. And the point is hammered home with an off-hand statement pointing out that while the seventies’ protest songs (especially Ohio) got a lot of airtime – nothing suchlike happens now, the radio is packed to the brim with songs devoid of any kind of message.
