The movie is about the two bikers traveling from LA to the city of New Orleans. Their pursuit of freedom gets abrupt dramatically.
Throughout the film the two main characters experience several adventures. The first adventure is when they stop at a motel where they were turned away. Thereafter they started driving through several beautiful landscapes, which shows how the film portrays freedom in all of its beauty. The scene is quite long and shot from various camera angles, such as fade away and close-ups. Eventually, Wyatt's bike gets a flat, and the two stop at a farm to fix it. It is at this point that the film makes a comparison of the bikes to cowboys. As Wyatt is fixing his tire a man in the background is shoeing his horse. This scene represents Wyatt as a new version of a cowboy and his chopper is the new cowboys steed, while the farmer is representing the old version. It is in this scene that Wyatt tells the farmer how much he admires his farm because he bu ilt it with his own hands. Wyatts values and morals become clear in this scene.
In the next scene they pick up a hitchhiker. The hiker was from a city, but he refuses to say which city he is from, because he believes that all of them are the same. The hitchhiker obviously feels that by revealing the city he is giving into the idea of big business that would mean losing ones identity. Wyatt responds that he's never wanted to be anything but himself. The hitchhiker is running from the city, while Wyatt is searching for something.
In the following scene, the two bring the hiker to his home in a commune. Throughout this scene, there is a feeling of solitude. Everyone seems to be getting along, people are having fun, and they're all sharing the workload and growing their own food. Wyatt really looks up to the people on the commune and tells Billy that theyll make it. The scene where they all hold hands gathered in a circle is shot from a center point and focuses on e very face while rotating around. Wyatt feels comfortable there, as opposed to Billy who begins to freak out when the entire commune is singing Does you hair hang low? This scene shows the differences between Wyatt and Billy. For example, Billy cant stand life on the commune for more than one afternoon, while Wyatt is content to live on a commune forever.
After leaving the commune, they get arrested for participating in the parade without a permit. This symbolizes a change in the environment. They are now in the deep south of America which at the time was not as free and accepting as the commune.
While they are in jail, Wyatt and Billy meet George Hanson, an ACLU lawyer. The idea of racism becomes clear with Hanson who says that he can get them out of jail as long as they didnt kill a white person. This racist comment represents the mentality of the south at the time.
A turning point in the movie happens when they stop at a diner in New Orleans. It is obvio us that they are not welcome inside the diner by the looks they get from the locals. So they decide to leave and camp out in the woods. While camping out they are beaten by the good old boys (who they previously saw at the diner) and George is killed. The death of George is very significant in the scene that follows. This scene shows the mentality of the locals which does not tolerate anything or anyone different then they are.
Next, after leaving a whore house Wyatt and Billy get into a discussion about how they are now free because they have the money. However, Wyatt disagrees and says that they blew it. His thinking is that they have not reached a point where they are free and never will because society is afraid of the idea of true freedom. By saying, We blew it, Wyatt is really thinking that he would have been content if he had stayed on the commune. His chance for happiness is lost. After this scene the producer uses the black transition background the same a s in scenes before.
Finally, the movie ends with the death of Wyatt and Billy. They are killed by some rednecks in a truck. After Billy is shot, Wyatt hops on his bike and rides right past the truck that shot Billy. After being killed his bike went up in flames. In that scene we can see the same burning motorcycle which is foreshadowed in an earlier scene. He had to know that they would shoot him as well but he realized that death was the only way he could truly be free. Perhaps it was an act of loyalty to Billy and also a way to escape the false notion of American freedom.
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