Dennis Hopper invented a whole new way to edit scene transitions, a staccato echo across space and time, and then no one used that technique ever again. Because it was a dumb, acid-induced idea. But it still kinda works.
There's a profound ambivalence here that makes Easy Rider a thornier and more interesting text than it might appear. It's more than iconography and a thundering soundtrack and a crazy jack nicholson performance. But not that much more, because it doesn't need to be. Favorite cut: the violence with which "If 6 was 9" ruptures out of "Don't Bogart That Joint."