Five Easy Pieces, starring Jack Nicholson was about a troubled man running away from his past. In the movie, he is depicted as having a dead end job with a ditsy girlfriend that is overly attached to him even though he does not love her the way that she loves him. He tried to rid himself of her when he decides to go back home to his family to see his ailing father. He ends up going back to see his past and face it down.
I thought the story was well put together, but the movie itself seemed shoddy and low budget. Maybe it was and the limitations on technology in the early 70's. Either way, I think the sound quality could have been greatly improved upon. The story itself kind of left you wondering what he was really thinking at the end, and where he is going to end up. Will he ever face his past and come to terms with it? Will he ever settle down in one spot and stop running away from his problems? These are questions that were running through my head after the movie.
Like I said, I thought the movie was good, and very thought provoking.
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