The 60's, the Resolution

In the final part of the movie The 60’s, everything started to calm down after a big crisis. Michael found a new girlfriend when he was helping in the campaign of a politician. However he was still in love with Sarah, and goes one more time after her, he seems to be a hard learner. Sarah, on the other hand gets sick of Kenny, who is a complete idiot, and does not take care not even a bit about her, or about anyone else, he is just concerned about the “cause”, which could be means that he is only after personal glory at all. He is hiding from the police, because they are after him to put him in jail, so he hides, let his beard grow a lot (resembling a lo to the Che Guevara), and prepares bombs in a tiny room with a couple guys that are as sick as him. Eventually, one day Sarah visits him, throws him money (only seen in movies) and goes really exasperated. Kenny stayed for the cause smoking near to a bomb that he was making, and as is natural, and I hoped form the beginning of the movie, he exploded in a thousand pieces. Rest in peace Kenny.

            Brian comes back from Vietnam, and he was not happy at all, looked like he forgot to speak English, because not even a word came out of his mouth at his arrival. He hides in his room for a couple days and let his beard grow, looking like a copy of Chewbacca. This part of the movie is a representation, of how soldiers were sent to the Vietnam War, to fight and die for reasons that they did not understand. The reasons for the psychological trauma of Brian is not explicitly explained on the movie, but it could be assumed, that his behavior is a result of his experiences in the war; facing death, watching his partners die, while he was killing by himself Vietnamese in a effort to survive. He becomes a part of the opposition to the war and accompanies Michael to a hippie festival, where he had a mental crash and tried to kill a man whose head was not on earth and was desperate asking if someone had seen his lady. Brian gets knocked and then everything starts to get fixed when he wakes up.

            Katie on the other hand, understands that the father of her son is an idiot and he does not give her a penny for her son. She starts to work doing striptease but she quits the same day she begins, because a man offended her. It is degrading what some women have to do for necessity in order to maintain their families, in extreme circumstances, and because of the lack of support of their families or partners. She goes along with her baby and escapes to the farm of her mother in law. There is like a small community where everyone cooperates in order to coexist. Then, she goes to a hippie festival, where she finds her brother Brian knocked and takes care of him. She did not recognize him at the beginning, because he changed a lot his appearance, but finally she realizes who he is when he says his name. Then Michael arrives and they reunite, and both brothers met their nephew, Michael Rainbow, Katie’s son. They all go together to their home, with their parents, and they reunite. Both parents, Bill and Mary, were astonished at the arrival of Katie. They make a barbecue, were Bill quits his role of Macho man, and says “I am sorry” to Katie, because of all the suffering she passed through and because he thought more about what people would say than in his own daughter. Sarah arrives from nowhere and now she is really decided that the only man she loves is Michael, maybe because Kenny is dead, but they get together again. Meanwhile, the new girlfriend Michael had disappeared from scene and never came back.

            In other waters, Emmet joins the Black Panthers, uses a leather jacket and thinks he is a bad guy. He is part of the protection team of Fred Hampton, an activist of the Black Panthers in Illinois. Later, Fred is killed while sleeping. This meant a point of high tension in the civil rights movements. The falling action of this movie was steep, and it had a happy ending for the principal characters, excepting for Emmet, who was drastically affected by the murder of his father. Some secondary characters did not have a happy ending, like Kenny, who became fireworks. The crude reality of that time and the resemblance it has with nowadays is marked, meaning that many of the problems of the 60’s are still alive, and while other problems ended, many others arose. But I guess it is how life is all about, problems ending and other ones arriving.