Easy Rider

Dennis Hopper, 1969 (suom. "Easy Rider - matkalla")

This film is not just about good music, beautiful American landscape, peace, freedom, dope and motorbikes. It is also quite philosophical about the hippie age, the tension between the counterculture and the mainstream, and the values inherent in the hippie culture. The character played by Peter Fonda is classically ethical (regarding his values - which takes to forget he is smuggling dope money) yet enigmatic: he's not actually enjoying his freedom but rather sincerely searching for it. The conclusion he comes to in the end of the film, I think, is borrowed from the final conclusion in Seven Samurai. There are many lines of dialogue with a deep aspect to it, such as the explanation of the difference between being free and speaking about freedom, told by the character played by Nicholson.