" On a quest to find America"
"Revolution and liberation taste too sweet, the abyss beckons. suddenly the car speeds over the edge-into a glorious white light"Laderman). In the movie Easy rider Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper), two friends leave the urban Los Angeles to look for "America"; an America they couldn`t relate to anymore. Like their new friend George (Jack Nicholson) said:"You know, this used to be a hell of a good country; I don`t know what`s going on..".
The other America they were looking for was supposed to be a land of FREEDOM and a leader-free world, where each man is his own leader and could have total control over his destiny. Their clothes, their hair, their way of life distinguished them from the majority, therefore they were considered outlaws. And because they did not live by doing the things people considered to be "normal', their lives were not secured. People were afraid of what they represent, and the best way of keeping themselves safe was to take the outlaws' lives away
It was almost surreal for them at that time to look for such an America. This world is ruled by ideas the majority of its people accept and live by. It is always difficult, quite impossible to reverse that possibility.