"The Girl on a Motorcycle" is very much a product of the '60s. Marianne Faithfull plays a young woman who leaves her husband to visit a lover. There's no shortage of psychedelia and erotic fantasies along the way. And when I say that we get to see Marianne Faithfull, you'd better believe me!
Two scenes stuck out to me. In one scene, she rides past a WWI cemetery and asks what they died for. Good question; can anyone nowadays say what the first global war was about? (never mind how the Versailles Negotiations set the stage for WWII and the Vietnam War) Later on, her lover (Alain Delon) is talking with some students and posits that their generation will do away with marriage. Well, marriage is still a thing over half a century later, even as the marriage rate has dropped. Why do people still get married? Does it serve any purpose?
Obviously that's all tangential. It's a fun movie with some great music. I suspect that they had fun making it. Worth seeing.
Two scenes stuck out to me. In one scene, she rides past a WWI cemetery and asks what they died for. Good question; can anyone nowadays say what the first global war was about? (never mind how the Versailles Negotiations set the stage for WWII and the Vietnam War) Later on, her lover (Alain Delon) is talking with some students and posits that their generation will do away with marriage. Well, marriage is still a thing over half a century later, even as the marriage rate has dropped. Why do people still get married? Does it serve any purpose?
Obviously that's all tangential. It's a fun movie with some great music. I suspect that they had fun making it. Worth seeing.