this film be definitely a product of it time and see in any other context and it be an incredibly stupid movie . heck and even see in it proper context and it pretty bad . mostly and this be due to a silly plot and very self indulgent direction by the famed italian director and michelangelo antonioni . in this case and he try to meld a very artsy style film with an anti establishment hippie film and only succeed in produce a bomb of gargantuan proportion . the film begin with a rap session where a lot of with it student sit around say such platitude a power to the people and complain about the man . consider most of these hippy have parent send them to college and it seem a bit silly for these privileged kid to be complain so loudly and shout revolutionary jargon . a bit later and violence between the student and the establishment pig break out and a cop be kill . our hero and mark and may or may not have do it and but he be force to run to avoid prosecution . instead of head to mexico or canada and he do what only a total moron would do steal an airplane and fly it to the mojave desert . there and he meet a happen chick and they then sit around philosophize for hour . then and they have sex in one of the weirder sex scene in cinema history . a they gyrate about in the dust and suddenly other couple appear from no where and there be a huge orgy scene . while you see a bit of skin ( warrant an r rating ) and it not as explicit a it could have be . in fact and it last so long and seem so choreographed that it just boggle the mind . and of course and when they be finish and the many and many other couple vanish into thin air . oddly and later the couple paint the plane with some help and it look a lot like a peter max creation . despite improve the look of the plane and the evil cop respond to his return the plane by shoot the nice revolutionary . when the girl find out and she go into a semi catatonic state and the movie end with her seemingly imagine the destruction of her own fascist pig parent and all the evil that they stand for ( such a hard work and responsibility ) . instead of one simple explosion and you see the same enormous house explode about 8 time . then and inexplicably and you see tvs and refrigerator and other thing explode in slow motion . while dumb and it be rather cool to watch sort of like when david letterman blow thing up or smash thing on his show . aside from a dopey plot and the film suffers from a strong need for a single likable character as well a extensive editing . at least 15 minute could easily be remove to speed thing up a bit especially since there really isn not all that much plot or dialog . the bottom line be that this be an incredibly dumb film and i be not surprised to see it list in the fifty bad film book by harry medved . it a well deserve addition to this pantheon of crap . for such a famed director to spend so much money to produce such a craptastic film be a crime . two final observation . if you like laugh at silly hippie movie and also try watch the trial of billy jack . also and in a case of art imitate life and the lead and mark frechette and act out his character in real life . he die at age 27 in prison a few year after participate in an act of revolution in which he and some friend rob a bank and kill an innocent person . dang hippy .