There's not really much to spoil here: in the course of one minute, a happy-go-lucky Mickey joins the Army, ships out to Vietnam, gets a VC bullet through his head moments after landing. The final long zoom-in on the dead Disney star is an incredibly powerful image; you can see every young person who fell in that war lying there in his place without having to squint.
This has all the hallmarks of an underground work, the grainy and cheap anonymity of something dangerous created in a a basement or a back room after midnight by persons unknown--counterfeit Disney with a very dark streak, violence instead of sex. "Tijuana bibles" and radical comix of the time period come to mind when watching this, but as a film one wonders where and by whom it could have been seen. If this were made today it would probably have a healthy following on YouTube as one of those mysterious creepypasta videos that fuel so many Reddit discussions.
My review is based on the version on YouTube linked from the Lost Media Wiki, which includes a modern (and extremely effective) addition of a System Of A Down song on the soundtrack.
The '60s is, decades later, a harmless high-kitsch parody of itself as seen through the mass-media nostalgia filter; when you don your Deluxe Hippie Costume Set from the Halloween store and greet your neighbor with a faux-stoned "peace, maaaan!", do you remember what your assumed character is referring to? In this uncomfortable artifact of a bygone era, Mickey has volunteered his life to remind you.
This has all the hallmarks of an underground work, the grainy and cheap anonymity of something dangerous created in a a basement or a back room after midnight by persons unknown--counterfeit Disney with a very dark streak, violence instead of sex. "Tijuana bibles" and radical comix of the time period come to mind when watching this, but as a film one wonders where and by whom it could have been seen. If this were made today it would probably have a healthy following on YouTube as one of those mysterious creepypasta videos that fuel so many Reddit discussions.
My review is based on the version on YouTube linked from the Lost Media Wiki, which includes a modern (and extremely effective) addition of a System Of A Down song on the soundtrack.
The '60s is, decades later, a harmless high-kitsch parody of itself as seen through the mass-media nostalgia filter; when you don your Deluxe Hippie Costume Set from the Halloween store and greet your neighbor with a faux-stoned "peace, maaaan!", do you remember what your assumed character is referring to? In this uncomfortable artifact of a bygone era, Mickey has volunteered his life to remind you.