Review of Five Easy Pieces (1970) by Shane S — 15 Nov 2009

When we see Jack Nicholson today he seems to have become a caricature of himself. No longer does the man sneeze and cry like the rest, he simply smiles of a devil allowing nothing more to break the fine constructed shell.

With Five Easy Pieces we see why Nicholson is giving privilege to be nothing more than a hollow. During the film Nicholson establishes himself as a force of purity. He is genuine to the root, his tears seems to have been laying with pulse waiting to be let free form the damn of journey behind.

He shows the actors of the future and yester, that he is a force to be reckoned with. He embodies the pressure of the times, the constant change of what they want you to be, from what you actually are.

He is a personified version of masculine male in a post definitive state. With Bob Rafelson playing Napoleon to Nicholsonâ??s sword swinger, we see the 2nd golden age gain its title appropriately. The use of juxtaposition is simple and pointed.

We learn of Nicholsonâ??s past, while still remaining wholly in the present. We see his horror, and honor. We see why men do what they do, and in the end we are left with more questions then we ever could have hoped.

Five Easy Pieces is a film of magnificent class, and honest to the bone. Nicholson was once and will forever remain a talent of magical rawness. My only hope is that he and his contemporaries will someday come back to this bountiful magic.