The 60's Movie Reflection , Part. 1

In the sixties movie presented in class we can observe a lot of important social movements happening at the same time. The first one I saw is the raising importance of educating oneself. Michael the younger male is not well appreciated by his father who prefers his oldest and testosterone-full brother Bryan. We can see that being well educated was considered important but was not really well appreciated by others. This search of knowledge leads Michael to question him, society and the government which involves him in the revolutionary events happening around him. I see him as part of the pioneer thinkers that helped mold the world to what it is now. Another movement represented in the movie is the liberal woman and her rights. Michael’s youngest sister Kathy is the best at showing her independence of society. She has sex with the man she wanted to, dances as she wants and with the one she wants to. In her time she was seem like a spoiled brat but the reality is that she is not too different of the woman of nowadays. The rights of women in the other hand are not fully developed since they were starting to demand equines in gender thus in the black communities the woman is more respected than her white counterpart. The final movement seen in this movie is the Black Power Movement which was starting to manifest against segregation in the United States. We can see that in the city of Alabama some people where fighting for the right to vote of the black people and where not welcomed. Their protests were peaceful and without any intents of hurting someone but the racism was stronger than common sense which always ended in a white hurting a black guy. The movie also mentions some important events that motivated these movements like the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War and the speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. These great events led to some interesting changes in the movements and their effect on society.