1968 was a hell of a year.

Protests erupted around the world against Vietnam, against the old guard, against I love Lucy

and Brill Cream in Levitt Town and the cops in Alabama, but against bigger things too.

Against capitalism and authoritarianism and colonialism and colonialism and racism and inequality.

We know about the protests in racism and inequality.

We know about the protests in Berkeley and Prague,

but they haven't in Pakistan and Brazil, too.

It was like 1848, a year where a new world threatened

to sweep into existence.

Paris, where student protests, swelled in size until joined by droves of workers they precipitated a general strike,

came to exemplify the time.

All of France was shut down. And briefly Charles

De Gaulle fled to Germany. The protests almost spawned a revolution. I say briefly

because it was less than 24 hours and then De Gaulle was back calling for new elections,

which he won handily, but the spring of 1968 had a lasting effect.

No one loved De Gaulle, and he was within a year, and in the long run the ideals of the protesters changed the trajectory of France.

There was a new ideology brewing in those universities that in many ways had more power to change the world than any column of tanks.

I'm talking about post-structuralism, deconstructionism, post-modernism.

Now, there's film criticism, and then there is film criticism and then there is critique

to film and this podcast does not really fall into any of those three categories.

In fact, it barely qualifies as three guys talking about movies, and I seriously question

whether it meets the minimum standards of even being a podcast.

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