We want to be free to do what we want. Roger Corman and his film Wild Angels.
America, Los Angeles. 1966. The Vietnam War is in full swing. A gang of bikers Hells Angels in the California desert finds a relationship with a gang of Mexicans. The police are awake. One of the gang members, Loser in pursuit receives a bullet wound in the back, and then falls into the hands of the police. The leader of the gang, Paradise Blues decides to release the wounded. But it went wrong. The wounded man dies at the funeral service, the gang arranges the most unbridled orgy.
So what about the movie, a curious viewer will ask.
The film is about a dysfunctional America, but not only. It's about the biker subculture, and not only that. Cinema about young people, about finding their way, about protest, about trying, to declare themselves and not only.
The main movie about freedom. On the search for external freedom, internal freedom. The Moral Path to Understanding Freedom. To understand responsibility for your choice. To understand the responsibility for those who follow you, for those who believe in your ideas.
This film was made on a small budget and was not appreciated in America, but it is worth watching. It is worth looking at, if only to understand that freedom is not absolute. Freedom is a clear understanding of one’s responsibility to friends, relatives, homeland, time, peace and conscience. And perhaps the last important thing, responsibility to ourselves, our conscience and makes us human.
We see Paradise Blues throwing clumps of earth into the freshly dug grave of Loser. You can hear police sirens and the sounds of motorbikes running away gang members.
The blues are burying a grave. He has to, he has to. For on the way to freedom it is impossible to circumvent the court of conscience.