‘One to One: John & Yoko’ shows Yoko Ono’s speech in which she reveals the treatment she received from society after revealing her affair with John Lennon
New documentary revisits the relationship of Yoko Ono and John Lennon. One to One: John & Yokodirected by Kevin Macdonalddebuted in Venice Film Festival this Friday, 30th, and shows the One to One Benefit Concert, the only full show made by Lennon post-Beatles.
“As they experience a year of love and transformation in the United States, John and Yoko begin to change their form of protest — leading to One to One, inspired by Geraldo Rivera“, says a statement sent to the press (via People).
The 1972 show at Madison Square Garden in New York City raised $1.5 million to help children at Willowbrook State School, which supported people with intellectual disabilities.
Relationship
In the movie, Yoko recalls the attacks she suffered when she started a relationship with the ex-Beatle. They met in 1966, when the musician was still married to Cynthia Powelland were married from 1969 to 1980, when he passed away.
In a certain part of the feature film, Ono gives a speech at the First International Feminist Conference in 1973 and details the treatment she received from society after revealing her affair with Lennon.
When Yoko and the musician met, she was already an established artist. Being a creative and independent woman, Ono believes that the public considered her a “slut”. When she joined Lennonshe was “promoted to witch”, which was “quite flattering”.
Society treated me like a woman who belongs to a man who is one of the most powerful people of our generation. Some of his closest friends told me that it was probably better for me to stay behind the scenes, that I should just shut up, that I should give up my job and then I’ll be happy. I started to stutter because the whole society started attacking me, and the whole society wanted me dead.
“I consider myself a very eloquent and attractive woman. And suddenly I was associated with John, I was considered ugly, an ugly Japanese woman, who took your monument away from you,” she continued. “That’s when I realized how hard it is for a woman.”
Source: Rollingstone
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