More than a documentary, this film is a document, about a reporting team trying to cover a series of hippie protests in the city of Yorkville, Canada, in 1967, which engages with a group of students, eager to convey their opinions about the education system and the way of social organization in which they live and ends up surpassed by events, accused of encouraging protests, to which the police reacted with arrests and repression, and being forced to abandon the reportage and return to Montreal, against their will .
Taking what he managed to film and through a lot of editing work, Mort Ransen built a documentary that, much more than showing the protests, conveys an image of a group of young people committed, innocent, dissatisfied with the society in which they live but without concrete objectives, but also of the total lack of understanding and inability of the authorities and many adults to deal with this dissatisfaction, either by creating goals for young people or channeling their motivation positively.
A portrait of a time of change in which the generation gap seems deeper than usual..
Taking what he managed to film and through a lot of editing work, Mort Ransen built a documentary that, much more than showing the protests, conveys an image of a group of young people committed, innocent, dissatisfied with the society in which they live but without concrete objectives, but also of the total lack of understanding and inability of the authorities and many adults to deal with this dissatisfaction, either by creating goals for young people or channeling their motivation positively.
A portrait of a time of change in which the generation gap seems deeper than usual..