It was an amazing movie! It took me back to when I first moved to San Francisco. It is the first movie I've ever seen set in SF that actually conveyed the feeling of living in SF back then. But it went further than a visceral memory to also show me an aspect of life in SF that I hadn't been consciously aware of before. There was a quiet commentary on an undercurrent of what class and race relationships were like there that never bothered to hit spell it out. Which is how it was when lived also. It's what everyone was supposed to pretend wasn't real. That's San Francisco.