I'm 70 years old and think this film is an unrecognized masterpiece. For full disclosure, I am Gay so that may account for part of my admiration. In any event, it's a tantalizing, very sensual film. Not for all tastes of course and it would frighten some immature minds and presents some possibly-dangerous ideas in the wrong "hands." But so did Gone with The Wind for that matter. I had to watch it twice to try and understand some aspects that most will not "get." Perhaps having dropped acid back in the day did help my "getting" at least some of the film's possible meanings." One might be tempted to draw some comparisons to Penelope Spheeris' The Decline of Western Civilization which is "an American documentary film filmed through 1979 and 1980
" about the Los Angeles punk rock scene.