Kumar doesn't have Harleys, guitars, or boots, but the movie has deeply injected the hippies' cry for freedom into his soul.
Hippie culture was born in San Francisco in the mid-1950s. They look for loneliness in the hustle and bustle, break with traditional society, and look for the dawn of a new society in mutual care.
What makes it difficult for outsiders to understand is that the main force of the hippie community, or those who are most willing to suffer from poverty, were born from a wealthy middle-class family. From the early 1950s to the early 1960s when the hippie movement emerged, society was peaceful and peaceful, but it was this stability of running the state that contributed to the subsequent earth-shattering hippie movement to some extent, which went from one extreme to another. An extreme typical example. Therefore, the hippies' choice of poverty is limited to the break of wealth. This is why Kumar, as a very gifted medical student, has a well-known father and brother, but screwed up all the interviews, and refused to "be an ordinary India." people". The hippies make themselves impoverished, in fact, to be able to liberate from that materialized society, to maintain their independence, not to become slaves to consumption and so-called status, and not to repeat the "predecessors" they can't be used to. , The mistake of restraining individualism. Kumar wants to dominate his life.
As for the director's setting of the protagonists as Indians and Koreans, two races that are not mainstream in the United States, this is consistent with the hippies' spirit of emphasizing the rights of ethnic minorities. When Harold was bullied by two white people in the company, Kumar discussed with him the joyful marijuana time at night, and could casually trim his pubic hair naked in his room, completely unable to feel the slightest influence on skin color and race. Mind, everyone is the same. On the contrary, the black people in prison, because of their skin color, could not get rid of their charges, they were trapped in the prison and bullied by the white police officers. This constant sense of ethnic conflict makes the friendship between the two particularly interesting.
The core of the movie is adventure. The most precious spirit of hippies is action. The two are consistent. The hippies didn't stay too much at any crossroads, and did it when they thought of it. This seemingly simple step has imprisoned contemporary people in the new century. Kumar didn't give too much consideration at every intersection of the search for the castle. After all, he just went all the way towards the goal of WHITE CASTLE. This perseverance became more vivid through Harold's moments of hesitation.
Harold seems to be a rigid and conservative image with an American name, but he has the only thing in common with his Asian friends that they only have skin color.
In the end, Kumar decided to be a doctor. Harold yelled "FUCK" to his colleagues. It seemed that Kumar finally abandoned being a radical hippie. Harold was not sticking to reality. In fact, they finally found a balance between hippies and the mainstream of real life. They gave new connotations to hippie culture. Yes, we smoke marijuana, but, in reality, we still want, MOVE ON.
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