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Title: 'Easy Rider'
Release Year: 1969
Director: Dennis Hooper
Cast: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hooper, Jack Nicholson.
Plot: Two freewheeling hippies cross the country going to New Orleans, as they discover themselves.
Review: 'Easy Rider' has really baffled me. To make it short, they spent the whole movie taking drugs, they met Nicholson's character and then they all died.
Without meaning that everybody in that age was drug addicts, I think that the film had much more sense in the late 1960s for the need of freedom of the youth, searching the track of their futures. As for the drugs, hippie community was known for using them to reach ecstasy and alterated states of consciousness (as seen in the scene with the hookers in the cemetery). Far beyond its important social connotations, the film itself offes little for a different time moviegoer that hasn't studied film history before.
As positive qualities we find Jack Nicholson's performance as a funny and drunk lawyer who brings some light between the smoke of the weed that impregnates the movie and the death of all of them (which somehow awakes a feeling of injustice for the killing of innocent people just for their lifestyles), especially the leading characters at the end of the film.
Without meaning that everybody in that age was drug addicts, I think that the film had much more sense in the late 1960s for the need of freedom of the youth, searching the track of their futures. As for the drugs, hippie community was known for using them to reach ecstasy and alterated states of consciousness (as seen in the scene with the hookers in the cemetery). Far beyond its important social connotations, the film itself offes little for a different time moviegoer that hasn't studied film history before.
Freewheelers looking for their destiny...
As positive qualities we find Jack Nicholson's performance as a funny and drunk lawyer who brings some light between the smoke of the weed that impregnates the movie and the death of all of them (which somehow awakes a feeling of injustice for the killing of innocent people just for their lifestyles), especially the leading characters at the end of the film.
Jack Nicholson... one of a kind. Demonstrating his genius in his early films
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