easy rider
"In examining Easy Rider’s treatment of the road and the landscape, we can see that there is no single “smooth” message offered by the film about uts times. Easy rider is a quintessential example of a film caught between to languages." (Klinger 11).
As I was watching the film, I felt like the phrase: "We blew it" described or represented a couple different ideas. Through out the film I noticed many shots of graves or graveyards, far too many to count. I believe that this represented the phrase "we blew it". It means we’re finished; it is done. Death is the final stage. All our drug use and counter culture brought us to death physical, emotional, and mentally. I felt like this film was a “lesson” for those who participated in the same activities as Wyatt and Bill. I didn’t feel like it encouraged participation in counterculture but discouraged through the imagery of death and "we blew it".
One the other hand it was a clear rally call around the hardships of the counter culture. That if you choose to participate in it, one runs the risk of sacrificing one's life to do so. All in all the difference comes from whether or not one looks through the gaze of a hippie or from the goverment.