Five Easy Pieces 1970 123movies

Watch: Five Easy Pieces 1970 123movies, Full Movie Online – Robert Dupea has given up his promising career as a concert pianist and is now working in oil fields. He lives together with Rayette, who’s a waitress in a diner. When Robert hears from his sister that his father isn’t well, he drives up to Washington to see him, taking Rayette with him. There he gets confronted with his rich, cultured family that he had left behind..
Plot: A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn’t spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
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	7.4/10 Votes: 37,550
	89% | RottenTomatoes
	85/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 400 Popularity: 7.762 | TMDB

Reviews:

Not pleasant but very well written and acted.
“Five Easy Pieces” is a very unusual film because the star (Jack Nicholson) plays an incredibly unlikable guy. Robert badly mistreats his girlfriend, Rayett (Karen Black), and cheats on her. She IS often annoying and slow, but he chose to live with her and spends much of his time making fun of or ignoring her. He’s easily bored and prone to self-defeating and selfish behaviors because he’s emotionally stunted–unable to really love anyone.

This is also an unusual film because it doesn’t have a traditional plot. Much of it spent just watching the man go through life. The main focus of the film, when it does occur, is Robert returning home to visit his family. The father is quite ill and it’s obvious Robert does NOT want to visit and is only doing so out of obligation. But, guilted into this, he goes. There, you learn that the family is full of gifted musicians and intellectuals–and Robert is very ill-at-ease in this environment–and seeing these folks, it is understandable. They are about as unlike him as possible.

If a psychotherapist watched this film and wanted to form a diagnosis of the two main characters, they would probably see Robert as a relatively high functioning antisocial personality (meaning, his violations of laws and norms are usually NOT the sort to get him imprisoned) and Rayette as a Dependent Personality. Dependents NEED someone to love them–even if that person is abusive and distant. Like a whipped dog, they wait and hope to get an occasional bone tossed their way in the form of a kind word here or there. And, they are quite sad to see. Because these two were done so realistically, you have to admire the writing of this film.

Overall, a very well written film. In spots, it’s VERY enjoyable (such as the famous diner scene) and in others, it’s very painful. To carry it off, the actors (particularly Nicholson and Black) are at the top of their game. Also, the musical choices were wonderful. Playing all the low self-esteem Tammy Wynette songs (such as “Stand By Your Man”) seem to be perfect to describe Rayette’s life.

Taking the Easy Way Out
Contains spoilers.

The central character in this film is Bobby Dupea, a blue-collar Texas oilfield worker who travels to his family home in the Pacific North-West when he discovers that his father is dangerously ill after a stroke. In the course of the film, the audience comes to learn that Bobby is not originally from a working-class background; he comes from a well-to-do and artistic middle-class family, and he himself was once a promising concert pianist before he abandoned his career.

What we never find out is exactly why Bobby gave up his life in music. While talking to his father, he says, `You know, I was never that good’, but there is no indication whether this is the truth, or the result of insecurity about his talent, or an excuse he has invented. What is undoubtedly true is that Bobby is in revolt against his family, not just against their ambitions for him to excel in music, but also against their entire lifestyle. The family have a deep love of high culture in all its forms, and particularly of classical music. Bobby has abandoned not only his career in music but also his family’s cultural values. His life in Texas, revolving around heavy drinking, bowling alleys, country-and-western music and casual womanising (even though he has a live-in girlfriend, Rayette), seems to have been designed to fit every middle-class stereotype about how the working-class live.

The family’s obsession with music is shown in the names they have given to their children; Bobby’s full name is Robert Eroica Dupea, his brother is Carl Fidelio and his sister is Partita. Names, in fact, are important in this film. The central character’s split identity is shown by his two names- he is still Robert to his family, and only Rayette and his Texas friends call him Bobby. Rayette’s name seems to have been invented to fit her social background, it being something of a film convention that a female character with an unusual name consisting of a supposedly feminine suffix added to a male name will be drawn from the poor underclass.

Rebellion against middle-class values is frequently presented in films (and in other art forms) as something laudable, but not here. This is not an ideological film that aims to attack the vices of the bourgeoisie or to extol the virtues of the proletariat, but rather a character study of a largely unsympathetic character. Bobby is selfish and irresponsible, unable to accept any restrictions on his freedom to do as he pleases or to consider the happiness of others when this conflicts with his own wishes. He retains, moreover, some of the more unattractive middle-class characteristics, especially snobbishness. A man who forces his girlfriend to stay in a motel because he is too ashamed of her social origins to let his family meet her (as Bobby does to Rayette) can hardly be said to have freed himself from middle-class values. Ironically, when Rayette does eventually meet Bobby’s family, they get on much better than he had feared.

There has been much discussion of the precise significance of the title `Five Easy Pieces’; my interpretation would be that, besides the obvious musical meaning, it also relates to Bobby’s character. In music, he will never try a difficult piece if he can get away with playing an easier one- as he does when his sister asks him to play for her. In life too, he is always looking for the easy way out, the least amount of responsibility or the least emotional risk. The final scene, where Bobby abandons Rayette on impulse to start a new life in Alaska is perhaps the best example of this, but he also treats his family badly, as when he seduces his brother’s girlfriend.

Although there are some other good contributions, particularly from Karen Black as Rayette, it is Jack Nicholson’s performance as Bobby that stands. Nicholson always holds the viewer’s attention, whatever he is doing, and in his set pieces can make the film spark into life. The scenes where Bobby confronts a surly waitress in a diner and a snobbish friend of the family are among the best in the film, charged with a sort of angry humour. Throughout the whole of his performance, in fact, there is something that would become a Nicholson trademark- an undercurrent of suppressed anger. This combination of barely-controlled (and sometimes uncontrolled) rage and grim humour prefigures a later, and even better, Nicholson performance in `One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’.

`Five Easy Pieces’ is not a film of the same calibre; it can be dull and static in places and, like many character studies of unsympathetic characters, it can seem lacking in heart. It is, however, worth seeing, if only for one commanding performance. 6/10.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 38 min (98 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 18099091
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama
Director Bob Rafelson
Writer Carole Eastman, Bob Rafelson
Actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 4 Oscars. 10 wins & 21 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35 IIC
Laboratory MGM Laboratories Inc., Culver City (CA), USA (color processing)
Film Length 2,685 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 100T 5247)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 8 mm, 35 mm