However, as a window into a time of great change and upheaval the program failed to crystalise any sense of true perspective and set poor Bobby in the role of spokesman of a generation by proxy.

If the word proxy means authorised to speak on behalf of others - that was not the case in fact and Bob Dylan made it quite clear that it was not his wish either to speak on behalf of a generation.

I couldn't help by be reminded by the film that in a practical sense those songs were a product of a reality that Bob Dylan's generation of young people shared. That we may have not asked and he may not have agreed - but to some extent - his songs then - were not perhaps speaking for a generation but were expressing the wishes and concerns of that generation.