Holy crap!!! This movie was amazing! It's very easy to do a hippie movie showing hippies as peace and love and blah blah blah but to show hippies living in a conformist world and seeing how that world reacts them....WOW! Billy and Wyatt have just made a lot of money because of a cocaine deal, so they decide to load up their motorcycles and go to New Orleans to experience Mardi Gras. On the way they meet George (Jack Nicholson) who decides to tag along and basically sums up the movie with an epic quote:
"I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em."
People ARE scared of what they don't understand and people who live in a conformist society and love to spout of rules of society and the ideals of America seem to get really pissed off when people want to exercise that freedom and not live life in a conformist society. Eventually George is murdered by some square hicks in Louisiana and when Wyatt and Billy leave New Orleans to go "retire" in Florida, they are shot off their bikes by some redneck hicks, proving how dangerous intolerance and ignorance can be.
I loved this movie (the soundtrack was pretty bomb too, but it's no secret that I love 60's stoner music). Kiel...not so much. He thought the movie was boring, even though it had a hippie commune, a whore house, Jack Nicholson and an acid trip in a cemetery! Oh well. Hopefully Kiel goes out and get's me some beer. The next couple nights are the last nights I have to get tispy with my sweetie for the next 7 months.
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