The Wild Angels (1966)
This movie is the prelude to the 1969 'Easy Rider' about counterculture movement. Honestly, there is nothing great to say about this one. It is about a bunch of young adults of the Hell's Angels just riding and riding being chased by cop, beating up people, breaking up things and getting high.
This movie is the prelude to the 1969 'Easy Rider' about counterculture movement. Honestly, there is nothing great to say about this one. It is about a bunch of young adults of the Hell's Angels just riding and riding being chased by cop, beating up people, breaking up things and getting high.
The thing that struck me was the two main actors - Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra, both offspring of great legends of showbiz, namely Henry Fonda and Frank Sinatra. Peter Fonda had his own successes and so did Nancy Sinatra. Nancy, famous with her signature tune 'These boots are made for walking', did not do so well in the silver screen as she did on the music front.
It made me uneasy whilst watching this movie is to see how offspring of a generation who had strived hard to make it big, never have the tenacity to scale great heights as the generation before them did. The story also reminds me of how the younger ones in any society at any time of history tend to be weaker and less resilient physically and mentally than their predecessors. The younger one also yearn for 'freedom' and the need to avert difficulty and sufferings. The living example around us is the ability to withstand labour pains. Our grandmothers and mothers just embraced childbirth with all its anxieties and uncertainties with the stride of life and the off loading their worries at the altar or at the lotus feet of the Divine.
The newer generation are not going to leave the moment of their joy to the hands of others without giving a fight. They want to know exactly goes on with them. within them and they will just not take the discomforts of childbirth lying down. They cannot accept the old grandma's tale of the pain of childbirth is nothing compared to pain of dying on a cross. Times change.
It made me uneasy whilst watching this movie is to see how offspring of a generation who had strived hard to make it big, never have the tenacity to scale great heights as the generation before them did. The story also reminds me of how the younger ones in any society at any time of history tend to be weaker and less resilient physically and mentally than their predecessors. The younger one also yearn for 'freedom' and the need to avert difficulty and sufferings. The living example around us is the ability to withstand labour pains. Our grandmothers and mothers just embraced childbirth with all its anxieties and uncertainties with the stride of life and the off loading their worries at the altar or at the lotus feet of the Divine.
The newer generation are not going to leave the moment of their joy to the hands of others without giving a fight. They want to know exactly goes on with them. within them and they will just not take the discomforts of childbirth lying down. They cannot accept the old grandma's tale of the pain of childbirth is nothing compared to pain of dying on a cross. Times change.
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