Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Directed by Bob
Rafelson this film stars Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach
and Lois Smith. A worker on an oil field returns home to visit his
dying father and family of musicians with his pregnant girlfriend.
Like the protagonist
the plot of this film drifts along and is more of a character study
of a man that is unable to settle at any one place in the world
rather than a tightly plotted film. There are some comedic moments
but they do not dominate the film. The problem with the film is that
in my opinion it neither explains the reason for the protagonists
behaviour nor shows him changing.
3/5
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