Five Easy Pieces...a movie with virtually zero plot. And I loved every second of it. No movie other than 'A Streetcar Named Desire' will keep an audience engaged for about two hours without a compelling plot. However, Five Easy Pieces pulls it off.
Five Easy Pieces is a movie about behavior and attitudes. It is about the audience anticipating how Bobby (Jack Nicholson) will react and say to particular situations that are extremely familiar to just about everyone. He constantly kept me guessing. Sometimes he surprises you (how he defends his dizzy girlfriend from an elitist snob) and sometimes he does exactly what you think he will do (the diner scene).
Essentially, a person could easily predict the ending of this movie within the first three minutes but that is hardly the point. The point is that this guy is disgusted with himself, hates his surroundings, and loathes all choices he has made in life but can't change his mindset or conduct. Why can't he change? Why did he act like that? What is he thinking? These are a few of the questions that you will be asking yourself during the film, and that is what's so compelling.
Five Easy Pieces is a movie about behavior and attitudes. It is about the audience anticipating how Bobby (Jack Nicholson) will react and say to particular situations that are extremely familiar to just about everyone. He constantly kept me guessing. Sometimes he surprises you (how he defends his dizzy girlfriend from an elitist snob) and sometimes he does exactly what you think he will do (the diner scene).
Essentially, a person could easily predict the ending of this movie within the first three minutes but that is hardly the point. The point is that this guy is disgusted with himself, hates his surroundings, and loathes all choices he has made in life but can't change his mindset or conduct. Why can't he change? Why did he act like that? What is he thinking? These are a few of the questions that you will be asking yourself during the film, and that is what's so compelling.
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