Saturday, June 05, 2021

Zabriskie Point (1970)

Second viewing; previously viewed on September 20, 1987

An ex-student (Mark) on the run from the police for alleged involvement in the death of a policeman during a student riot steals a small plane and meets a young student (Daria) in the middle of the desert where they make love and talk.

This is curious as a record of an era and its sillinesses, which, come to think of it, are still our era's sillinesses, with a few changes. It starts very interestingly with an excellent sequence in a classroom where students debate their "movement"; then there are some riots and they go to jail; after that it shifts its focus to the two main characters, and it becomes a little dull.

Rating: 50 (down from 68)

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