By 1968, the movie I love you, Alice B. Toklas (ILYABT), co-written by the ingenious Paul Mazursky, would singularly aim to define the hippie movement along political and cultural lines. By irrefutably politicizing hippiedom and its general tenets, it is nonetheless unclear if the movie altogether encouraged or chastised the movement. While defining hippiedom in decidedly unflatteringly critical terms, ILYABT does give the viewer a direct glimpse into the hippie lifestyle as the salutary spark that unknowingly reinvigorates the protagonist back to life, giving him the necessary fortitude to forgo a frustratingly unsatisfying bourgeois lifestyle…

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