The 60's part III

In the last part of the movie we could see much resemblance between the movie and actual events that are happening in our time right now. This shows how great the movie really is. It shows main things that keep repeating time after time; since, after all, history is always repetitive. Recently the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras had a strike where the students fought for their rights of free accessible education for anyone in the island. Students went through danger, and had to face the police’s outrageous actions towards them. The things in Puerto Rico aren’t going very well and the ones who still have the spirit to fight for what they think is right are the young students that are recently exposed to the situation in the island, are affected directly by it, and are fearless when it comes to justice. This is exactly what happens in the film, college students were the ones brave enough to defy the government and stand against the war that had no reason of being. Maybe the students are the ones brave enough because people just grew used to what the government’s actions or where too afraid of it. Students stood against the police for what they believed in and they had to face danger in order to make a statement. The police now a days behaves exactly as they behaved in the movie with the students on strike, as if the students where wild animals that had to be taken in control by hitting and with gas pepper.

In other aspects we can also compare the discrimination in the movie with the discrimination happening now a day. For example in the movie they show how women didn’t had a voice in the 60’s and even though that has changed now a days, sometime women keep being discriminated just for being women. Things like getting paid less than men for doing the same job, not getting considered in many aspects are things that show how female discrimination is still alive in our surroundings; people are just not aware of it or decide to be oblivious to it. To this day the race discrimination is less evident, but there is still evident discrimination in social classes. There is also the topic of the war; this could be compared with the latest war in Iraq since the purposes of the war in Iraq where never clear just like the movie presents how people actually didn’t know what the war was even for.