Easy Rider
Easy rider characterizes the spirit of the sixties by involving freedom, dreams, and struggle. Peter Fonda plays Wyatt a 20-something purpose seeker along with his best friend Billy (Dennis Hopper), a true Californian hippy. Like many others these two friends set out on a trip to discover true America; to discover them selves. Funding their trip was a quick drug deal with some Mexican dealers. The main message of this film is that people are scared to live or to see others live. That difference threatens people and their action is to get angry and violent, as the film expressed numerous times. Violent acts portrayed by common comfortable country people. This film is relevant today, because of that. Everywhere you go you are go
This film also had an extremely good soundtrack and great cast. People were angry and they acted on it, people struggled for food and struggled for purpose in there lives and the film portrayed that clearly. Being it the sixties or the twenty-first century that feeling never goes away. But I think if mature adults put interest in the film it would be an eye-opener. I think this movie was pivotal because it didn't sugar coat the true events that took place in the sixties. " Wyatt and Billy met George in jail after they illegally joined a parade through a small town in Louisiana. Georges quote is ironic considering that just a few hours after he said it he ends up beaten to death from expressing his individualism. ing to find similar people that are impartial to change and feel threatened by freedoms of others and how others express it. The theme was emotionally impressing to understand the truth about the sixties. Jack Nicholson's character, George Hansen, a part time lawyer/alcoholic said it very well, "They can talk to you and talk to you about individual freedom but once they see a free individual it scares them. The riding scenes gave you the feeling similar to when you're riding in a car and you could be going nowhere or anywhere but for a second everything makes sense and that all that matters. I would recommend this film to people interested in the technical spirit of the sixties. Easy Rider was typically well received by younger society; mainly because of the heavy drug content. The film had a good response on myself because it broke down the cliche sixties stoner happy decade by focusing on the violence and anger that also occurred in that time.
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