The 60's Part 1 and Part 2 Review

The 60’s movie is more like a TV series in which describes de the Herlihys family. We can describe this family as a working class family from Chicago. They have three children this three take wildly divergent paths and that is most of the first part of the movie in which the popular kid Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael, who is the wiser and the intelligent kid, becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics. Last but not least there is Katie who is the youngest and the craziest, she is a great representation of the rebel kids that want to break the rules and the stereotypes of the family. She gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune.

Meanwhile, the story about the 60’s is based on the different styles of life at this time when talking about skin color, the racism, and the civil rights. In the story we have the Taylors, they are an African-American family living in the deep South. The police and the white people doesn’t like the presence of this people anywhere, almost all of the places in the town doesn’t allow the entrance of black people. These families with the help of others are trying to stop the racism, marching and protesting every time they can. The head of the family Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, was shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton. This is the mayor topic in part 2 of the movie.

The 60’s were years with a great impact for black people. The 60’s it is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.  Racism it’s and will always be part of the human beings if in the houses when little kids are growing up they are thought to be racist, if we teach our little kids to love everyone because of what they have to offer as a person, there will never be racism. Also for gay people, when people show the little kids something is wrong they will grow old with that way of thinking in they heads. There is no way someone could hate another person because of the skin tone that doesn’t make any sense.

We can see an example in the part when there was a school party, and Katie starts dancing with a black guy. The school punished her and his parents also punished her because of the actions. That is the most wrong thing to do to a young person, teach them to be racist. I love Katie’s personality because she fights back the rules of her family, and right her own path with her ideas, her way of living the life. In some things I may say she is a little immature but she knows because of her wrong decision she will learn to be a better person. She has no fear to fail in life she is determined to write her own path.