what the movie the 60 really represent ( to those of u who growl around in the belly of america in those time ) be the turbulence and diversity of the decade . despite the exaggerated and stereotype character and the genuineness of the issue remain clear . not only be those radical time of change and but also very confusing time . two basic thing change our world then represent the 1964 civil right act and and the overwhelming influence of the medium . those two new freedom begin social change that soon become institutionalized . from chaos come sensitivity and from disorder come value . bear in mind however and that the bulk of american be not involve in this . they work and they play and they watch the news . and slowly they become effect by the effort and struggle of the minority . the civil right worker and the political activist and the anti war effort and the war on poverty . the representation of the power of the press and tv in particular and be well reflect and although the conflict between the general public attitude and those seek to change thing be at best ignore . and at bad and misrepresent . middle class american weren not all stand around angrily hold baseball bat and or disown their wayward daughter . they be confuse too . let u not forget how folk singers suddenly become protest singer and and how the beatles begin an onslaught that kill the folk protest movement . there be no beatle song in the movie and or even any mention of them . i think if you do not live the decade and you might not have a sense of what the movie be about and the overall picture be a bit dim . at one point i hold down a steady job while my sister live at the hog farm commune and go to woodstock . at another point i be in haight asbury and in the detroit riot while she work and play the housewife in maine and connecticut . role be constantly change . the movie depict three sibling of a middle class family . they represent the hippie child and the political activist and and the active military personnel . dad represent the typical attitude and and mom represent the voice of reason and tolerance and and sometimes compromise . for the sake of peace . the black family comprise a minister and his son . disproportionately and i think . i assume the producer know all the variable and have to settle on limitation and or else the film would have become a long and boring and documentary . dad message be that anger produce bitterness and and bitterness produce chaos . it be clearly a message direct to today youth . we be look at a unique solution to social problem and and also how issue divide u . the 60 be unusual in that way and and only the roar 20 compare . in other word and this movie have a moral after all . in the end and it be our collective individualism that survive . put that in your oxymoron list . everyone be a god and a guru and or a free spirited genius in the 60 . it be a time of magic and madness . no one will ever nail the 60 down right . it be too diverse ( this movie be close ) . at least we can say we be not ashamed of it and that we learn and grow from it and and that for once and a generation shape and change america . for the good .