Tuesday, February 2, 2010

5 easy pieces..?

Did Robert head off to Alaska..? How long did Ray stay at that gas station till she realized she had herself a new car? Did you find Spicer, sexy...? All unanswered questions aside, I find the movie Five Easy Pieces by Bob Rafelson to be most revealing. Upon my first time viewing of this film, I felt that within all the dialogue and character build, there wasn't much background or certainty as to why Robert was a flustered and unhappy man. After looking at imdb.com, I made an interesting discovery of Robert's middle name...Eroica...which most likely referencing Beethoven's 3rd symphony (respectively in E flat Major). Eroica is Italian for Heroic, how ironic...and even better is that this piece of music is noted as the end of the Classical era, and the start of the Romanticism...

Mhmmm..much deeper than one would expect, so deep I don't even think it was mentioned within the movie(him having a middle name that is). But how funny an end of an era and the start of a new, could this be the "revolution" the end of a "classic" and "traditional" lifestyle that was created during the 50s, tested in the 60s and now questioned in the 70s. And Romanticism, do I have to mention sex in the 70s...

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