Josh Zaborowski
One aspect about Easy Rider (1969) is the anti-materialistic views. This view is portrayed through the “hippie movement”. The hippie’s belief was that money itself was useless. The land was the thing of value. The hippies lived off the land and tried not to focus on money and the materialistic things you can purchase with that money. These non-materialistic views were very different from the most of society, at that time and continues to hold true in society even today. The readings described the notion of counter-culture as a positive, rather than with negativity like many other media sources did. The film really stressed peace, love and freedom. I think these are the same aspects the readings illustrated. So all in all, I believe that the film portrayed the hippie movement in a positive and accurate way, which I truly enjoyed.