After seeing this fantastic movie called Hair, I just couldn’t stay indifferent about huge differences between the characters’ economical and social standard. The contrast is obvious at the very beginning of the film. The scene which points to these differences the most is, in my opinion, the one when they are all at the fancy party, both hippies and the rich. Just by looking at them is possible to see the enormous gap between their levels in society, because, hippies are dressed poorly, their outfits are old, worn and dirty, and their hair is a total mess, while others, the rich people, are elegant and sophisticated, wearing their expensive clothes. Of course, such different kinds of people couldn’t be long in the same place without trouble, so, as it was expected, the hippies were soon treated as social parasites and arrested, not even with a chance to speak for themselves, and with no compassion for their hungry stomachs. In the end of the film, which is very sad in every way, the daughter of the businessman joined the flower children, and understood their desire for freedom and love, but it actually didn’t solve anything. I guess that the message was that we can all live in happiness and peace, but it never worked out in reality. She was just one individual in millions of others… The ones who have everything continued to look down on the ones who have nothing, and considered them to be human junk, similar to animals in their way of life.
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