Across the universe

Jude is part of the working class in Ireland, he lives with his mother. His father disapeared to America and he follows him to find out who he is to let him know he has a son. He arrives at the the States to find out that his father is also a worker at a university and not a professor as he was hoping. But Jude meets Max and is thrown into the movement of the 1986, falls for Max sister Lucy and they live a life far from rules, with drugs and freedom. But then Max gets confiscated by the army and is send to Vietnam. So while Lucy gets involved into the protest movement that is getting more and more violent, Jude becomes an artist, but the relationship suffers under the different point of views, way of living, envy. The soundtrack is only Beatles new composed, very nicely made. The story is told in a kind-of-musical-way, lots of singing, dancing, art-hippie scenes, coloured and lively, switching between reality and drug-cognition, the war in Vietnam and the revoluton going on in America, but never failing to show the seriousness and violence that broke out.