"Easy Rider" occupies an important position in the film history of the United States and even the world. It marks the arrival of the peak period of new Hollywood film production in the 1960s and 1970s. American films broke through the heavy shackles of the commercial production model and began to glow with new vitality.
The film was born in a turbulent era, with the proliferation of murders in American society, racial prejudice, economic crisis, Vietnam War and other haze shrouded in the hearts of young people, and the United States is full of a generation of confused young people.
Against this background, the two protagonists, White and Billy, after earning a thick stack of banknotes by reselling marijuana, rode a Harley with an American flag and a black leather jacket with an American flag, driving in the vast U.S. On the ground, galloping forward without an end...
On the journey, he met a country man, and White said to him, you should be proud of your survival on your hands.
I met a hippie with no past, and got a brief pleasure in the intoxication of wine and dreams. Whether to stay or move forward, White seemed to have hope in the hesitation and continued the journey.
He met Hansen, a not-so-dignified lawyer, and came into contact with the so-called upper-class money power darkness. In the city, Hansen's label is a lawyer and the upper class, and the police, a creature who sees money and power, respects Hansen. After leaving the city and joining White and others, in the unfamiliar realm, Hansen's symbols changed to marginal and alien, and he was discriminated against. A lawyer with money, background and status was finally murdered because of prejudice in a foreign town.
The surviving White and Billy encounter two prostitutes who are also marginalized and get lost in the huge Christian festival crowd. The four questioned God in pain, why did they abandon us...
Just because of strange clothes and because they were not accepted by mainstream groups, the last two people were shot ruthlessly by passers-by without any crime. Killing was like a child's play. This reminds me. Soon after the trip, White said sadly, "I think I might crash," a line that foreshadowed the film's tragic end.
Different from most road movies, "Easy Rider" mostly uses medium and close-up shots, focusing on the inner predicament of the characters, and also reflects the narrowness and prejudice of people in the society at that time. The cinematography is well composed and the music is excellent. In particular, several rock soundtracks, rebellious lyrics, and rock style in the film make people unable to cherish forever.
"Easy Rider" has several special transition clips, and the abrupt and repeated jump clips make people think it is a playback failure at first. This trivial and abrupt transition, like the split heart of the protagonist, cannot be played smoothly forward.
This is a film about the demise of man and the demise of humanity, and it shows us the inner struggles and social outlook of the American Beat Generation in the 1960s and 1970s.
I remember when White looked sad and Billy said to White that we had a lot of money and we were going to retire early. But when White heard it, he said, we screwed up.
We have money, but what is the meaning of life?
If it is said that existence comes first and essence, then the meaning of life may be a process that needs to be pursued by people, but White and Billy, in an era when politics has become a child’s play, in the face of the ugliness of human nature, and the complete despair of social order, they are finally connected. forsake them all to God. What to believe and what to pursue, the light that guides life also sinks into the deep sea, and in the darkness and cold, it is consumed little by little.
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