I highly recommend Jean-Luc Godard's Tout Va Bien.  Starring Jane Fonda, the film was made to "consider the class struggle in France four years on from 1968."

Before seeing this film, years ago, I didn't know anything about the student strike in France that grew into a national strike.  I've since learned more about it and protests that happened all over the world during that time.

I am particularly interested in the slogans and posters from the protests.  Above is my favorite.  It's fitting, given that politically the protests failed; the violent, passionate protests changed nothing.  I imagine the poster was created as provocation, but instead it was prophetic.

I find it quite sad that we, meaning 'we the governed,' could so easily rise up and demand better treatment for ourselves.  But we don't, and we never will.  Not because we don't want to be treated better, but because we aren't willing to risk anything for the good of everyone.  Daily, we step on each other's heads (our co-workers, neighbors, countrymen) trying to rise above the roiling masses - we selfishly want more for ourselves ... and to have more, everyone else must have less.

Think of Orwell's Animal Farm: "All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others."  That's how it always ends.