Five Easy Pieces Comments

  • Arden 2022-09-13 17:05:44

    The success or failure of such films depends entirely on the temperament of the actors, and Nicholson does fit the image of an antihero of this kind. It’s just that this level of rejection and escapism is completely incomparable to the resistance to the system in Flying Over the Madhouse, which must be a subjective reason for the failure of the hippie...

  • Adell 2022-09-11 20:42:40

    Situation and physical escape. The heart has always been an island. Always think that if you leave and go to another place, there will be a change. Playing the piano in a traffic jam. Play the piano after going home. A family of bullet pianos. Social pretentiousness. The cynicism of young people. The so-called pursuit of ideals is not as touching as a conversation between father and...

  • Cleora 2022-09-10 09:49:50

    cc. The look and feel is slightly dull, and it always feels that there are many improvisations out of control. Individuals of the Beat Generation are romantic, fleeing the old hypocritical order and unwilling to live in the vulgar daily life, escaping the confusion of renunciation, not knowing when they will stop, either in the prelude to the conflict or in the conflict. Aside from the suspects of passing scenes and improvisations, the switching of scenes always feels rigid and...

  • Peggie 2022-09-03 05:21:53

    If I watched this film ten years ago, it probably wouldn't resonate... The male protagonist avoided everything, so he was always "on the road", from one place to another, without knowing where he was going. To betray one's own class and flee to another class, only to treat it as a brief stop on the road, to experience what it's like to be "elsewhere", and then to flee again. The theme of the film is inseparable from the anti-capitalist cultural trend of hippies in the 1960s and 1970s. In the...

  • Bernhard 2022-09-02 01:54:52

    7. In JN words, when I was eight years old, I could play this piece (Chopin Prelude Op.28 IV) better than it is now. Unpredictable poke, good tail. The prodigal son who can't look back and can't hurt anyone, the filth-free Alaska is waiting for...

  • Nico 2022-04-29 06:01:04

    8.7/10. Road film: The story of a classical music pianist who was once an upper-class music family and is now a blue-collar male protagonist jumping repeatedly between the hard working class life and the hypocritical bourgeois life. "Go home to visit my father" is the clue of the story. Cinematography (color/light and shadow/composition) is exquisite, the soundtrack is comfortable, and the other image elements are also very accurate. Kissing on the bed-the juggling montage transitions shot by...

  • Berneice 2022-04-29 06:01:04

    The male protagonist who left home decided to start a new life, but the original family has been embedded in his genes, the birds flying out of the cage may starve to death, the scenery along the way becomes the cloud of the past, loneliness, emptiness and poverty are the price of freedom, maybe someday He will find...

  • Isobel 2022-04-29 06:01:04

    It was mediocre when I watched it, and after watching it, I have a little aftertaste. It may be this kind of movie. It depicts the lives of ordinary people, and most people's lives are so trivial, mediocre, irritating, and disappointing. Leaving, on the road, away from people you know, breathing...

  • Larissa 2022-04-29 06:01:04

    There is no resistance to this type of story. Tired of the boring hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie and the inability to integrate into the trivial and mediocre working class, gradually losing their belonging and identity in the mezzanine state, and only in constant escape can they get a moment of respite. On the way, the Lace hitchhiker looked directly at the camera and denounced consumerism and believed in the pure land of Alaska. It is the same as the literary youth who deviated from...

  • Rogelio 2022-04-29 06:01:04

    The profligate talent, the beat generation, the lonely soul; the tone is very good, but it's just a little bit...

Extended Reading
  • Marge 2022-04-29 06:01:04

    Famous American film critic Roger Ebert: "The Five Songs"

    October 23, 1970

    The title of "Five Easy Pieces" does not refer to the number of women hooked up by the protagonist along the way, because he only hooked up three in total; it is actually a piano workbook for the protagonist when he was a child. "Language" ranks among the best American movies. The...

  • Ana 2022-04-29 06:01:04

    Alien sorrow

    It’s been a long time since I wrote a film review, and I’ve seen a lot of bad movies in half a year.
    I have enjoyed all the benefits of bad movies that Uncle Haoxiang said. Watching a good movie occasionally becomes a major event. Can't wait to bathe and change clothes, burn incense and pray.
    In...

Five Easy Pieces quotes

  • Palm Apodaca: I have to come out and tell you the truth. You're not that clean either.

    Terry: Wait a minute. I'm not that neat maybe, but I am clean.

    Palm Apodaca: Well, you're not that bad.

  • Palm Apodaca: It's just filthy! People are filthy. I think that's the biggest thing that's wrong with people. I think they wouldn't be as violent if they were clean, because then they wouldn't have anybody to pick on! Dirt. Not dirt. See, dirt isn't bad. It's filth. Filth is bad. That's what starts maggots and riots.