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Easy Rider is directed in consummately trippy fashion by Hopper, who once had an intensely hip handlebar mustache before he went on to portray drunks and psychopaths in 80s films. He and Fonda virtually define late 60s cool here, at once aloof (or stoned) and utterly self-righteous. Yet despite the absurdity of their ideas and appearance, the freaks in this film do seem to be free, if only in a very misguided way, and seem infinitely preferable to the straight-laced types they combat. It's hard to describe a film in which every other word...
...term is misleading because people who depend on grimy mattresses and self-righteous church ladies' handouts do not fit into any category smaller than that of the supremely unlucky. Especially in recent years, the people who turn up at shelters and free meals are not all unwashed bums. An increasing number are women, many have spouses or families, most strive to keep up appearances...
These children deserve assistance not because they give the baritone newscaster a chance to drop into tones of pity but because, to drop into my own self-righteous tone it is their right. They suffer for our sins. And we, by having faith in them, cleanse our collective soul...
...certainly have no reason to be arrogant and self-righteous. But we may look back with gratitude on our development over these 40 years, if we use the memory of our own history as a guideline for future behavior...
...movie theaters, this illegal shooting usually gets a big hand. Righteous vengeance. Good guy kills bad guy. It is the kind of movie catharsis that may make Platoon a megahit. But can Chris or the audience take moral satisfaction in this deed? Which "father" has he followed? Has Chris become like Elias, back from the grave to avenge his own murder? "You have to fight evil if you are going to be a good man," Stone says. "That's why Chris killed Barnes. Because Barnes deserved killing." Or has he emulated his enemy? Has he become Barnes in order...