It was not just a decade, it was a universe...
The spirit of this time is beautifully capture with immortal music, authentic archive footage, colorful costume design and the ever present toke of marijuana and LSD.
Without a doubt The 60s is a serie which shamelessly sides in favor with liberalist ideals and leftist views. Conservatives surely hated it as much as they hated the time itself. As for me, I remember the time. I did not grow up or live in America, and the 60s impacted the entire world, not just America.
Though I don't think I care about its politics as much as I care about the characters, it did bothered me quite much to see them flirting with communism and I was honestly glad when the counter culture phased out. Those children are so naive thinking their pig farm is the answer. Communism has never worked very well. Its intentions seem to be for everyone's good but it brings more suffering than proseperity more often than not (after the end of the SPK, Finland is a democracy).
Let's get the reason I really enjoy this movie, and I only honestly like things about the movie, not the whole movie. I love the fashions, colors, music and all the events that happened, but there are really better 60s movies out there, especially ones actually filmed at the time. Honestly I love Jeremy most of all in this movie. He is so incredible and facinating, very attractive and charismatic (like he is in just about anything anyway). He's like a magnet to Sarah, and that other guy was plain and boring in comparison. He couldn't compete with Kenny, who is not only far more beautiful physically, but who is incredibly intelligent, fiery and rebellious, and what young girl of the times can resist? It's not hard to imagine Michael's despair. Kenny is a character that you either love or hate, nothing in between. Kenny for all his passion proves to be self centered and conceited and Sarah learns to look past skin deep beauty and keen wit to see Michel is the one who really loves her. The movie from there turns into a TV movie love story, which is when it lost my interest. I was mad at the outcome of Kenny's life and wished the whole thing had been about him.
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