——Milan "Kundera's Testament Betrayed"
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watched "[Easy Rider].Easy.Rider.1969.DVDRip.X264.AC3.iNT-CNXP" on VC. I remember when I was in college, a few Brothers crowded into a cramped dormitory, watching this film. Borrowed tapes, an L15 VCR made in the late 1980s, and a TV with a yellow screen. The tapes didn't work very well. Also deleted a lot. Still impressive.
Simple plot: Lu 0's, two people, typical hippies. Two motorcycles, a modified Harry. A journey from LA to New Orleans. Met a Luo Tuo's young lawyer, later, the man was beaten to death by a group of people in a dream. In the end, the two were inexplicably shot in the head by a bored man on the highway. They finally did not reach New Orleans.
There are two Plant a good movie: one kind of movie can make people's mood change, either no longer calm, or more calm; another kind of movie, the first time you watch it, it feels rough, but it is hard to forget, like a plain and watery friend. Easy Rider is the latter for me.
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On weekends, from Wuyi Road via Zhongnan Road and Danda Expressway to the Development Zone, and then riding along the Yellow Sea Avenue to Zhuanghe, you can see the golden hills along the road, which are somewhat similar to the scenery in the southern United States in the film. I think of the banners and slogans on the campus during graduation, "Support the Development of the West", "Support the Construction of the West"... It is also somewhat similar to the slogans on the streets of eastern North American cities a hundred years ago: "WEST, YOUNG MAN" (Young people, go to the West) !). As a result, many urban young people who are tired of living by the rules in the east, under the encouragement of some western legends, packed their bags, said goodbye to their parents and sisters, and started their wandering journey in the west. Either for gold or for land. As a result, the legendary stories of cowboys, the pioneering spirit that never fails, were born on this land.
On the same land, in the 1900s in the 1900s, two young people from West Coast cities encountered the descendants of the cowboys in their journey to open up a new life. It's just that the urban young people who used to live well in the past have turned into rambunctious hippies, while the cowboys of the past have become conservative and restrained villagers. In the end, when the deafening gunshots sounded, it might not only be a Harry that was torn apart, but also the pioneering spirit of the West..., a sad feeling!
After all, the group of hippies of that year have reached the year of knowing their destiny. It has become a conservative and the backbone of traditional values in society. In response to a phrase in a popular song "the world they wanted to change has become an integral part of them". Life may be the process of being assimilated by the environment in the passage of time, but some people are still insisting, and some have already given up.
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Some people say that Li Ao is a modern hippie. Having heard him speak, I prefer to see him as a fierce idealist. It's just, in an era where ideals are not talked about, what kind of loneliness it is for an old idealist to face a group of young cynics.
On the way, the protagonist in the film is chasing freedom, and at the same time, he is also resisting hypocritical moral standards and values. They have no turning back, and although there is no clear goal, the struggle will not stop.
So, the road has no end.
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