In the development of "Hippie, the world is changing" (Canal 13, 2004) we can distinguish two distinct moments marked by the departure of director Cristián Galaz and screenwriter Coca Gómez from the telenovela's production.

in the first one, the audiovisual narration is constructed through closed shots, but it's narratively focused in a hippie beach community called, Comunidad del Ostión, which allows the inclusion of some (but few) context scenes located in the beach and the countryside. In this point in the telenovela, we can see some scenes of Pancho learning about the poverty of peasants while riding around his father's property. We're also shown that Martín and his classmates from medical school build wooden houses and offering medical assistance to the poor people that live around the community.

However, the University, another prominent location in this period, is visually portrayed like a closed and autonomous space. Conversations about the role of students in changing society, the protests against the Vietnam War and against the conservativeness of University authorities always happen within the university and have no social echo (except for a TV appearence by Martín, that only seems to affect the University President's family). 

On the second moment of the telenovela focuses on urban spaces. The viewer knows that everything happens in Chile's capital, Santiago, but there are no wide shots, not even to establish the location of the action. Close ups are the most frequently used frames. There's mentions to some "fancy" neighborhoods in Santiago, but they are never shown. General social conflicts are not mentioned anymore, and the action is totally guided by family issues. 

Within this change of focus it is understandable that Martín's actions as a student leader change into a struggle with the father who abandoned him. This man left Martín's mother, a poor woman, pressured by his family and not knowing that she was pregnant. He never knew that he had a son, and, in turn, Martín only learns that his real father is Maximiliano Sierralta, the University President he antagonizes in the middle of the telenovela. The student leader despises the University President, because he says he supports the student's struggle, but is easily manipulated by the conservative forces that lead the University's board. When he does learn that Martín leaves the leadership of the student organization. Martín remains linked to the union --he is replaced as leader by David Torres, one of his best friends--, but his action is now a personal, private struggle, against Maximiliano Sierralta.  

In a ceremony celebrating the university's anniversary all students, professors and administrators are gathered. The University President gives a speech in which he speaks about the ethos that guides the University and the success of his administration. Martín interrupts the speech. "When are you going to do everything you promised the students?", he says. The cammera zooms to his face, and all the rest of the students disappear from the shot. He's the only person in sight. The next shot shows the shocked faces of Magdalena (the high class girl that Martín loves), and Andrés (the President's legitimate son who also disputes Magdalena's heart). In a middle shot, Sierralta responds from the podium. The cammera goes back to Martín, the back to Sierralta, back to the student/son... The confrontation is constructed by the rapid succession of shots, and expels from sight the social aspect of the struggle that's emphasized on speech. 

The impresion that the social is subordinated to the intimate is confirmed when the University President demands that this topics should be discussed in his office. Martín alludes to Sierralta's double discourse and lack of commitment to the students, but also his abandonment of his mother when he answers: "It's easier for you to lie in private".