Olivier Assayas’s “Something in the Air”

Olivier Assayas’s “Something in the Air” is a political film about youths trying to revolutionize during 1968.  The film asks the question at what point do you stop just making art and choose what kind of art you want to produce.  Another question the film asks is at what point you begin to sacrifice your morals and start paying your bills, which also brings up the issue of dying in comfort.  In the end when the girl is ready to come home after adventuring out and testing the waters, Gilles is just beginning his journey of adventure.  The film also addresses America as a land that the main characters are not ready to go to, in site of the possibility of a better life.  The characters would rather watch their partners go to America without them because they are not ready to sacrifice their ideals to that extent.