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Easy Rider [contains spoilers]
I did a search and saw there were no threads about this film, so lets have a thread discussing how this is possibly one of the best films ever made!
I saw this film for the first time about 3 weeks ago (under the influence) and ive watched it about 6 times since (with and without influence) and everytime i watch it im completely blown away. I cant find a single thing wrong with it, the cinematography is amazing, the sound track sums up completely the era in which the film was made, the characters and the story line seem as compeling in this day and age as they must have been 30 years ago... eveything about it just feels 'right', as if someone has managed to gather up the essence of that time and laid it down on celluloid.
Even though i guess you could say its an 'all american film' and it was made at a time i wasnt even born, i still feel like it speaks to me. Some of the lines in the film, dropped into conversation as if they were nothing, have literally made me look at my entire life in a new light. One of Peter Fonda's lines hit me hardest: "did you ever wish you could be someone else? I never wanted to be anyone else." Imagine that, imagine being able to say that and know its true, having lived your entire life not wishing a single thing was different... I guess he was talking about the times and place he lived in, because his love for his country comes through strong throughout the film.
The ending reminded me of Broke Back Mountain for some reason, i think it was because it was so unexpected, the rest of the film (bar the part where they get beaten up and the part in the cemetery) is like some fabulous waking dream where everything works out fine and their youthful free spirit carries them through everything, and then suddenly in the space of 30 seconds it all gets ruined. The pointlessness of their deaths i think is what struck me the most, but at the same time it wasnt just the end of their trip it was like the death of love, free spirit and happiness. As the end credits rolled i just felt empty, dismayed, it was a very weird feeling, ive been sucked in by films before but nothing like this.
Its a very weird, surreal film, harking back to times i didnt live through but can instantly identify with, even in 2008. That alone to me seems like the test of a good film, one which Easy Rider passes like no other film ive seen before.
I suggest if youve read this thinking "this guy just sounds like a nut job" then you go buy/download this film now, theres no way you will regret it.
I did a search and saw there were no threads about this film, so lets have a thread discussing how this is possibly one of the best films ever made!
I saw this film for the first time about 3 weeks ago (under the influence) and ive watched it about 6 times since (with and without influence) and everytime i watch it im completely blown away. I cant find a single thing wrong with it, the cinematography is amazing, the sound track sums up completely the era in which the film was made, the characters and the story line seem as compeling in this day and age as they must have been 30 years ago... eveything about it just feels 'right', as if someone has managed to gather up the essence of that time and laid it down on celluloid.
Even though i guess you could say its an 'all american film' and it was made at a time i wasnt even born, i still feel like it speaks to me. Some of the lines in the film, dropped into conversation as if they were nothing, have literally made me look at my entire life in a new light. One of Peter Fonda's lines hit me hardest: "did you ever wish you could be someone else? I never wanted to be anyone else." Imagine that, imagine being able to say that and know its true, having lived your entire life not wishing a single thing was different... I guess he was talking about the times and place he lived in, because his love for his country comes through strong throughout the film.
The ending reminded me of Broke Back Mountain for some reason, i think it was because it was so unexpected, the rest of the film (bar the part where they get beaten up and the part in the cemetery) is like some fabulous waking dream where everything works out fine and their youthful free spirit carries them through everything, and then suddenly in the space of 30 seconds it all gets ruined. The pointlessness of their deaths i think is what struck me the most, but at the same time it wasnt just the end of their trip it was like the death of love, free spirit and happiness. As the end credits rolled i just felt empty, dismayed, it was a very weird feeling, ive been sucked in by films before but nothing like this.
Its a very weird, surreal film, harking back to times i didnt live through but can instantly identify with, even in 2008. That alone to me seems like the test of a good film, one which Easy Rider passes like no other film ive seen before.
I suggest if youve read this thinking "this guy just sounds like a nut job" then you go buy/download this film now, theres no way you will regret it.
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