As the representative work of the new Hollywood road movie, it tells what happened to two young people with long hair, drugs and weird motorcycle riding on the way to the New Orleans Mardi Gras. The last two young people are on the road with them. Companions encountered were killed without warning.
The film subverts the film tradition of old Hollywood, mainly in the theme, editing, photography, music and characters.
On the theme, the film penetrates into the hearts of the characters, showing the two young people in that chaotic and restless era, in order to express the chaos of American society, expressing the author's questioning of the American government and American values, which is in stark contrast to traditional Hollywood's praise of American values Compared.
In the editing, the film uses a lot of illogical jump cuts, showing the two young people's confusion after drug addiction, but also showing their depression and despair, with strong modernist characteristics.
In terms of photography, the film has changed from the old Hollywood mode of smoothness and ensuring the subject is clear and prominent, and uses techniques such as subjective shots and unbalanced composition to show the chaos of the social environment and the distortion and depression of the protagonist's heart.
In terms of music, the film uses a lot of parallelism of sound and picture. The Beatles' rock music is played in the picture of the protagonist riding a motorcycle, calling for free lyrics to echo the characters and themes of the film, expanding the technical form of the film's theme expression. .
In terms of characters, the two "eccentric" youths were typical "beat generation" at the time, who openly called for freedom and opposed the American government and American society. Although there are anti-social characters in old Hollywood movies, they often break the law for their own interests and do not have a clear personal value output. The protagonist in the film openly discussed social issues and freedom issues in the United States, and was shot by an unknown person at the end without committing crimes or breaking the law, which satirized the chaotic social environment in the United States at that time and rendered two main characters. tragic color.
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