Directed by Dennis Hopper
My rating: 4 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper are long-haired hippies who complete a drug deal for a large sum of cash and then travel across the desert southwest to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Along the way, they encounter discrimination based on their appearance and lifestyle. A prophetic statement comes from Jack Nicholson, an alcoholic lawyer they meet in jail along the way and who tags along, when he says one night in front of the camp fire: "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". It's the definitive cinematic treatment of the late 60s counterculture, moodily photographed by Laszlo Kovacs and set to a soundtrack by The Byrds, Steppenwolf and others.
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