Well, let me put it this way. I love this movie for so many reasons, and I will try to type some of them:* Jack Nicholson is the leading. * Jack Nicholson's best performance. * disturbed main character. * it's involved with the 60's culture. * road-trip. * Karen Black's legs. * the dinner scene, which's one of my most beloved scenes of all time. * the five classical music. * the great ending.

Five East Pieces was a pretty good movie in my opinion. Bob Rafelson produced a great film. The cinematography was also amazing created by Laszlo Kovaks. The camera work, lighting, and acting was also fantastic.The story was crisp and clear.This movie was one of Jack Nicholson's best films in my opinion. My favorite scene was where Jack Nicholson playing as Robert Eroica Dupea, told a waitress to hold the chicken salad between her knees so he could get some plain wheat toast.It was very interesting got me to watch a movie that has a more laid back feel to it. I liked how Bobby Dupea was an oil rig worker in a blue color environment. The plot was also very interesting to me. i liked the idea of bobby being stuck between two different worlds.This film is a great piece for its time period ( 1970's). The low key approach of this film, towards everything made it very memorable.The last scene in this movie was kind shocking to me since it didn't seem like it was supposed to end just like it did. I liked the idea of bobby leaving his girlfriend with the car full with gas. Then he went home to the girl he was meant to be with.I thought this movie was really great, and interesting. I would rate this movie an 8/10. I would watch this movie again, and I can't say that about many movies.. especially the ones made today in the 2000's.

Five Easy Pieces was Jack Nicholson's breakout role. He was a minor character in Easy Rider the year before, but even so he was better in this. This hinges on a great performance as it is a character study of young life in the late 60s and early 70s. Nicholson plays Bobby. He used to be a great piano player. Now he works at an oil rig by day, and fools around with women at night. He doesn't want anything big in his life. He just runs away from things when the going gets tough. When his sister--also a pianist--informs him that their father is on the verge of death, Bobby decides to pay his dues and visit his family. This is an episodic film. The first bit deals with Bobby working and having fun. His friends are dumb and his mistresses aren't bright either. A good start.Then the film starts getting better when he reluctantly takes his girlfriend (Karen Black) on the road with him. They pick up two hitchhikers and the adventure begins. Now this isn't entirely a road movie but it sure is fun. The last episode is Bobby with his family. They live on an island in the middle of nowhere. He is an outsider to them both literally and emotionally. He must contend with a family he hasn't known for years, but at the same time revisiting his childhood has its benefits. Bobby hasn't played his old piano in years, but playing some "easy pieces" again really takes him back. That's how the film gets its title: he plays fives pieces on the piano that are easy. The end of the film is both ambiguous and fitting. I'm not ruining anything, just creating awareness.Five Easy Pieces is a wonderful character study of an isolated man who is a very mysterious human being. Is he autistic? Does he suffer from depression? Questions like these stir up when the viewer gets a look at Bobby's unpredictable responses. Nicholson plays the part perfectly and almost won an Oscar for it. (He lost to George C. Scott for Patton who was better.) When I say the movie is worth seeing for Nicholson alone, I really mean it. I don't think that the movie as a whole is as great as it could have been. The introduction with Bobby's habits aren't bad. It was an okay build-up. But the road trip bit really could have used some more work. I'm not saying they should have run over a deer, but just add some more things to it. They pick up the hitchers and go to a restaurant where Bobby has an outburst. These two sectors could really have used finesse. It never seems like the movie takes off. The road trip bit seems to be when the film tried to take off, but it never reaches its full potential. When Bobby eventually does make it to his family, this is when the movie really gets its mojo. Sure the first two thirds could have been jazzed up, but it just give the end a higher value. Having said that, I even think more finesse could have been used in this last part. If the movie was jazzed up with finesse, then I would have given it a higher rating. If it sounds like I'm bashing it (which I'm not) then it is only because I think it could have been that much better. Regardless of any criticism I give Five Easy Pieces, I can't deny the positive qualities it has. It is a classic and near masterpiece. For similar films I recommend The Last Detail, Easy Rider, About Schmidt, and The Bucket List.

"Five Easy Pieces" is a quiet, somber character study. It follows Bobby, a man that we first see working in an oil rig. He has a girlfriend that he can barely tolerate, but he clearly likes women and sex, and we see him cheating on his girlfriend. He is a hothead, and frequently has tantrums if he doesn't get what he wants, specifically in one scene in which he asks for lettuce and toast in a diner, but the waitress refuses, saying they don't serve that. He refuses to step down because he knows they have bread, and he continues to ask her in several different ways, until she kicks him out and he sweeps all of their glasses off of the table. Bobby is not a bad person, however. He has sympathy for others and it seems he can't seem to stand to see people suffer, even if he doesn't completely care about those people. It seems he can't stand responsibility and in one scene, he hops on the back of a storage truck with a piano while he is waiting in traffic simply because he can't stand to sit there in traffic. He wanders around for a while, not looking for anything in particular, until he ends up back with his girlfriend, who is now angry at him. This seems to be an accurate microcosm for the whole film. Bobby tries to run away from situations in which he knows that they will turn sour, which is why, as we find out, he ditched his rich family and a possible career with a piano there with them to work in an oil rig. But he's constantly moving away, because the real problem is himself. He visits his family because his father is on the verge of death, but when he sees the beautiful fiancé of his brother, he can't help but get with her. Of course she ends this before anybody finds out after a tantrum caused by a high class woman's negative comments to his brothers fiancé, as well as his sister having sex with Stoney. He clearly had hope that this could be something, but he is truly the one that ruined it for himself. He decides to leave with no goodbyes to anyone except for his sister (possibly the only member of his family he truly loves), who happens to catch him before he leaves. He is now stuck back with his girlfriend, the only person in the world who can put up with him, even though he doesn't want her to. He knows that there will be no escaping her, so when they stop at a gas station, Bobby discreetly gets into a truck hauling logs and tells the man that his car has burned up. He leaves his girlfriend to who knows where, but I believe he will only inevitably get himself into the situation again.