The 60's Movie Review

The 60’s movie

                The 60’s movie represents the different political and social circumstances through which the United States passed through. In the beginning, the film starts by introducing an American family composed of both the parents, a daughter (Katie) and two sons (Michael and Bryan). The first incident occurs when the teenagers are at a school dance and Katie dances with a black student. She is grounded by her parents and called on by the a nun by for behaving “inappropriately.” Woman gender roles in society can be observed throughout the movie with Katie. Katie’s parents demonstrate to be stricter over her, compared to her brothers. She sneaks out of the house to another friend’s place and is caught by her father who becomes fully disappointed of her behavior. Not long after she sleeps with a musician at a party and gets pregnant. After the incident her mother is trying to find a solution since what Katie did was considered immoral at the time and girls weren’t supposed to have sex before marriage and the Church would not approve of her actions. Shortly after her father finds out and becomes more alarmed and disappointed and says that she has dishonored the family. In another scenario Katie’s bother Michael goes to a teaching regarding the war in Vietnam and witnesses a young woman trying to speak her point of view and isn’t paid attention for being a woman, leaving Michael to defend her. Later on Sarah Winestock is seen getting anti conceptive pills which were being introduced to women and were are great controversy at the time.  These actions present how women were considered inferior to men at the time and were more limited in her roles and decision making in society.  During these years also took place the African-American Civil Rights movement represented primarily by Willie and his son Emmet Taylor who from the beginning fight for equality in the American society. Due to the segregation between blacks and whites, African-Americans were not allowed to be in the same places as white people. As a sign of protest they go into a diner and are thrown out by force and violence. Additionally shortly after a march for their rights to vote father Willie’s church and house are burned down as a sign of the white society throwing them out of their territory.