Let's think about the 60's

     A more accurate name for this would be Let's think about how racism is shown in "the 60's" mini series... but that's too long so i think the name it has goes better.

      I watched the 60's mini series (or movie, I'm still not sure which is it, it didn't seem episodic) and I was supposed to be watching it to see how these times were and see discrimination.  In class we've been having discrimination as a main theme for a while now, and when i watched this movie thinking it would be heavy with racism i actually ended up feeling underwhelmed.

     This feeling was probably brought by these misconceptions i had:

a) The story was only about discrimination.
b) or the main story points were going to be about racism.

I found a paper about the 60's online that i read before writing here to get some perspective but one of the line's threw me off, and I'll explain why.

"The movie takes place in many different areas starring two main families; a very suburban, white family who were excepting of blacks, and a very positive black family trying to push black rights in Mississippi. The movie portrayed many historical events while also including the families and how the two were intertwined."

    Although this movie does present these two families, at some point all the attention shifted from one family to the other ( I'm going to let you guess to which.).  I can't tell if it's because the 60's didn't have enough black movement on the second half of the decade or if they had to cut out those plot points in the movie because of the emotional story about the three white kids. These kids showed their types of  discrimination and gave a view to the 60's, but i feel like the black movement could have been presented better.

    That being said, what was shown of the black movement was great.  I loved how they portrayed the dancing scene with Katie accepting them and later on the peaceful movements moving Michael and making him see this world of civil right movements (wait are the other kids in these scenes too?)

    One of my favorite scenes is when Emmet has strayed from the path his father, a Priest, that had lead the march at Birmingham,  had made for him to help all of the African Americans move forward.  In this scene he sees how 1 act can be the destruction of everything that they had worked for and cause the death of the father he loved.  It is very emotional and it show's the viewer how important every little act is or could be.

Final thoughts:  I think the civil right movements and the moments with the African American family could have done without the other plots intertwining, i don't know if they did it because they didn't want two separate stories or because there is still racism in the industry, but it was done.  Apart from that, great music, great most of everything really, it was a good watch, 7/10 would watch again. Maybe.