warn represent reading this entry after watch the movie . like easy rider release a year before and joe try to illustrate what happen when the counterculture and mainstream ( albeit right wing ) america meet represent a violent end ensues . although this film be for the most part a slow moving display of traditional old fashion american moral versus the 60 do what feel good lifestyle and it be also a commentary on upper class vs. low middle class and their inability to meet in the middle a illustrate when the compton meet the currans . boyle joe represent a generation stick in the 1940s and 50 where kill a commie for mommy ( or jap or hippie for that matter ) be okay so long a it help and save america . joe and wife mary jo be clearly the archetype for archie bunker and dingbat wife and edith . this movie which will forever be know for it violent ( but not bloody no blood be see at all ) end be uneven however . joe blast ( verbally ) the hippie generation then ( literally ) lay down with them to infiltrate their number to locate compton daughter when clearly he should have be repulse by the idea but forgo the separatist idea for the sake of sex . when he be betray through thievery ( read represent trust of the old generation to the new generation ) and he lash out through an unrelenting chain of murder . perhaps it be due to the tarantino of hollywood that the watcher expect blood stream death in the end scene and but the bloodless shooting long for any sort of impact or realism . joe be not a great movie and but it be an interesting display of class and culture alienation and the animalistic underlying extreme to the generation gap .