Children of the Revolution - My Final Project

Children of the Revolution tells the story of two generations, the young people of 1968 and those of 2008. The formers decided to change the world, to bring into question their parents’ values. They didn’t completely accomplish their dreams, but they left an undeletable mark in the history of the Western World.
Their children, on turn, the young of 2008, haven’t been able so far to gather their parents’ legacy. This quiet generation is failing all the pivotal appointments with the recent history. It isn’t able to elaborate its own cultural models, and it is passively suffering all the crucial changes imposed “from above”, from “its parents” who now have got the power.
The basic question of this video, narrated in first person, is: “How could we turn into a generation of eternal minor?”
The documentary starts with archive footage of the student protests of 70s; the sequence fades to pass to nowadays where we see a public demonstration against the Italian government. The majority of the people is in their fifties. The young of the 70s are the middle-aged women and men of today. We see, then, recent images of some universities full of young people, thus my voice over starts: “I have been wondering for how we have arrived to this degree, how we accepted all the social and political changes with indifference. How did we turn into a generation of eternal minors?”
Then the plot develops through my meeting with two coetaneous of mine who will tell us their point of view and try to answer my initial question. One of the two interviews is set in Valle Giulia (Rome) an historical location of the student protest movements of 1968 just to create a strong contrast effect.
As a counter altar I will speak with a person who was 20 at the beginning of the 70s and politically committed in the student movements. He is now an accomplished architect in Los Angeles, I will try to understand with him if the contesters of yesterday have turned into the censors of today, the guardians of an uncompleted revolution.
The images will finally bring us to the recent student protests of the last Fall (is something changing?) and then, as if time was circular, to the archive images of 40 years ago.