Showing posts with label Easy Rider. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easy Rider. Show all posts

Saturday, August 3, 2019

Easy Rider Is A Fascinating Melancholy Look at The Cost of Being A Rebel

SPOILERS FOR EASY RIDER AHEAD
I’d heard from a lot of people in recent years that Easy Rider was incomprehensible to modern viewers due to not having aged properly. It's a sentiment so widespread that Craig Ferguson even made it a joke between himself and his mute horse Secretariat. Having finally watched this landmark motion picture, I can its' certainly a product of the era in which it was made, Easy Rider is as deeply interwoven into the fabric of 1960s culture as any movie. But as someone young enough to have not known what was going on with Tonya Harding before seeing I, Tonya, I was outright shocked by how much I outright adored Easy Rider, it's a great film in its own right as well as a remarkable exploration of those who belonged to the 1960s counterculture movement.