It Was a Very Violent Year - What Movie Are YOU?

The game is this. Look up movies that came out on your year of birth. Select NOT the one you like best, but RATHER the one that best represents your life in terms of mood, theme, incident and characters.

(Tips: Google "Movies YEAR" and you should have the most popular possibilities to scroll through at the top. For cinephiles or if you find nothing useful, the first link is usually an IMDB list of all films from that year. Down a link or two is a Wikipedia page that lists some films' release dates.)

Now, I was born in 1971, the year of Clockwork Orange, Dirty Harry, Get Carter, Straw Dogs and Shaft--I mean what the heck was happening?! Not just violent films, but movies that actively EXPLORED violence. That's not me at all! I seem to remember reading some kind of Mad Magazine "Violence Special" (judging from the date, probably the one above) which had a number of reprinted parodies of violent films and television shows from the 70s. I feel like it was wall-to-wall Dirty Harry/Shaft/Clockwork Orange jokes (13-year-old jokes sounds about right). Looking at the list of possible films, that memory bubbled inside me like so much rage. The rise of independent film and relaxation of censorship took us to the point after a few watershed films in the late 60s, but I don't identify with the movement. Nor with the cynical sf of the time (movies like The Omega Man and The Andromeda Strain).

So I feel a little silly saying this, but I think the Movie of of My Life is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory!

A would-be mentor in whimsy acting like a jerk until he's found someone worthy, or otherwise like the Doctor, inviting people to his home to discover new tastes and sights? Kind of sounds like me.

I mean, it sure ain't Walkabout, even if it came out a few days before I was actually born! (Or Shaft, which is even closer.)

What about you? What's the movie of YOUR life, according to these rules?