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...Canada two years ago, a motorcyclist with an electrically operated prosthetic arm passed near high-tension lines that were creating a powerful magnetic field. This energy caused the arm's motor to behave so erratically that the rider lost his grip on the handlebar, fell to the ground, and was nearly killed...
Like Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces before it, Goin' Down the Road is one of the new "road" films in which a stretch of asphalt provides the metaphoric core. Pete (Doug McGrath) and his pal Joey (Paul Bradley) are two wistful roustabouts from the Canadian Maritime Provinces. With 30 bucks and an abused Chevrolet labeled "My Nova Scotia Home," they pick up and head for Toronto...
...scene and some of the other, unpleasant scenes in the movie are the writing and acting, which, suddenly from time to time, strike right at that something we recognize as truth. If there is any actor who can be faulted, it is only Jack Nicholson, who uses his Easy Rider hillbilly accent and mannerisms in the early parts of the film-a characterization that makes little sense once you discover that Robert was raised in a cloistered homestead in the Pacific Northwest...
...found), he tries a lot of things-some of which work, many of which do not. Much too often he falls back on photographer Laszlo Kovacs' repertoire of American scenic vistas to punctuate scenes-a device that seems intended, for whatever reasons, to invite comparisons with Easy Rider. Occasionally, Rafelson cuts to moments back and forth in time; this invites comparisons to another, thematically similar American film, Richard Lester's Petulia -comparisons which Five Easy Pieces courts to its own detriment...
...Nicholi points out that certain aspects of the motorcycle's appeal-the thrusting of the rider's body into space, the intrusion of the deafening noise into other people's ears, the practice of keeping motorcycles in girl friends' garages-suggest genital or phallice elements, but says, "Clinical evidence proves such approaches to be limited in scope and far too superficial. . . Clinical material does make it clear, however, that the motorcycle serves as an extension of what the patient considers his masculine self...