he gets into a car accident ench and meshes -- which meshes him in an african-american neighborhood which points out hypocrisy and social inequalities that exist in new york city and other cities in the u.s. at that time. unsatisfying description of the movie. but the key things that come out in that book, important to think about this era is the 1980's is a movement of backlash. it is a pendulum swing against the collective radical progressive politics which divine that era. also when you both have on the level of government a kind of whereas atolicies, the same time a kind of widespread -- don't want to say acceptance, acceleration of individuals who can afford it. this was pointing out the hypocrisy. some of you might know the movie wall street, the phrase greed is fat cars, cocaine, lifestyles of the rich and famous, i would show you all these video clips, that's a liberation of extreme wealth while at the same time social programs are being cut, that is very much part of the ethos as historians understand it. a lot of economics, social and racial inequality. gender out on purpose bec