The movie "The Trip" starts off with a warning to the audience about the dangers of using hallucinogenic drugs like those in the film and ends it's message with this chilling statement: "This picture represents a shocking commentary on a prevalent trend of our time and one that must be of great concern to us all". The film "The Trip" does then honestly and accurately stick to it's warning and shows what mind-bending drugs like LSD could do to a persons mind as well as body when he or she are exposed to it.
TV Commercial director Paul Grove, Peter Fonda, is going through a depressing time with him and his wife Sally, Susan Strasberg, on the out's and about to get a divorce. Needing something to settle him down and get him out of his depression that's effecting both his work and social life Paul gets in touch with a hippie friend of his Max, Dennis Hooper. Max has him put under the care of John ,Bruce Dern an LSD expert to get Paul ready and into a state of euphoria and thus rid his mind of all the awful thoughts that are swirling around in it.
Paul after relaxing by smoking a joint is given a powerful LSD tablet and he slowly goes under and on a trip that last the entire movie with his mind exploding into a kaleidoscope of colors as well as bringing out to the surface his personal insecurities, that he kept well hidden in his brain. The LSD trip turns his most pleasurable fantasies into a bevy of paranoid hallucinations that leads him to almost go insane.
You, as well as Paul, never know for sure if Paul is dreaming or is actually going through the events in the movie. Later when John, who's supposed to be with him at all times unexpectedly fades from the scene and the poor man is left on his own running through the streets from one mind-twisting scene to the next. With all this going on you then begin to wonder if he's dreaming or actually living and suffering through them. These scenes in the movie may well have all been the result of Paul's flipped out mind conjuring up all these weird things. We also see John with a bullet hole in his head after he left Paul out of his sight for not more then a minute.
Running from the police through a number night clubs and Go-Go bars Paul runs into Glenn, Salli Sachse, a young Hippie, whom he earlier met at Max's place. Genn then takes him home where after a night of heavy action he seemed to have recovered from his "trip" into Never Never Land and is ready to face the world a new man with all his problems that he had before he "tripped out" on acid behind him. Not really that much of a story but the scenes of Paul going out of his mind and the colors and strobe-like effects of his brain being taken over by the LSD tablet is more then enough reason to watch the film.
TV Commercial director Paul Grove, Peter Fonda, is going through a depressing time with him and his wife Sally, Susan Strasberg, on the out's and about to get a divorce. Needing something to settle him down and get him out of his depression that's effecting both his work and social life Paul gets in touch with a hippie friend of his Max, Dennis Hooper. Max has him put under the care of John ,Bruce Dern an LSD expert to get Paul ready and into a state of euphoria and thus rid his mind of all the awful thoughts that are swirling around in it.
Paul after relaxing by smoking a joint is given a powerful LSD tablet and he slowly goes under and on a trip that last the entire movie with his mind exploding into a kaleidoscope of colors as well as bringing out to the surface his personal insecurities, that he kept well hidden in his brain. The LSD trip turns his most pleasurable fantasies into a bevy of paranoid hallucinations that leads him to almost go insane.
You, as well as Paul, never know for sure if Paul is dreaming or is actually going through the events in the movie. Later when John, who's supposed to be with him at all times unexpectedly fades from the scene and the poor man is left on his own running through the streets from one mind-twisting scene to the next. With all this going on you then begin to wonder if he's dreaming or actually living and suffering through them. These scenes in the movie may well have all been the result of Paul's flipped out mind conjuring up all these weird things. We also see John with a bullet hole in his head after he left Paul out of his sight for not more then a minute.
Running from the police through a number night clubs and Go-Go bars Paul runs into Glenn, Salli Sachse, a young Hippie, whom he earlier met at Max's place. Genn then takes him home where after a night of heavy action he seemed to have recovered from his "trip" into Never Never Land and is ready to face the world a new man with all his problems that he had before he "tripped out" on acid behind him. Not really that much of a story but the scenes of Paul going out of his mind and the colors and strobe-like effects of his brain being taken over by the LSD tablet is more then enough reason to watch the film.