Who Needs Points?

I admit I didn't get the point of this movie but then I said to myself: why does it need to have a point?

Life doesn't always have a point, sometimes stuff just happens. That what this films seems to me: it's just people living their life.

I assumed that the whole film was going to be about the littering and the draft exams in White Hall but it's just one episode in a film about people drifting through life.

There's a scene where Arlo Guthrie is thrown through a pizzeria window and I feared the whole movie was gonna be an Easy Rider clone about people being persecuted for being different. This movie has a nice balance and is neither overly anti-hippie or overly pro-hippie. The movie doesn't criticize the Vietnam war nor does it criticize young men for not wanting to fight.

I was surprised to see the sheriff's name is Obie, listening to the song I always thought Arlo Guthrie was saying Sheriff Opie. I thought Guthrie was an Andy Griffith Fan.