At one point while watching By Any Means, I caught myself smiling. The movie is not a comedy, the story takes place in 1966. A time when phones were tethered to walls, cars were boxy, big, slow, and difficult to handle, laptops and even computers were not a thing, and people read physical files, cameras were bulky, and their flashes made a distinct pop.
I couldn’t help but think how fascinating it would be for Gen Z or Gen Alpha to watch this film, to wrap their heads around the technology of that era and, more importantly, to witness how deeply divided America was in the 1960s.
