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What it's the message of this film ?

posted 8 years ago by edestci
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Never be a motorized cop, or never trust in a hippie ?
A good filming movie, but with a confusing script.
A pretentious work of his director James William Guercio ( surely doesn't knows ride a motorcycle....).
In the background this film disappoints.

Let's smoke a bit of grass, colleague....

[–] PenTheater 8 years ago

I was 14 when this came out, I got all kinds of messages!

Ephemeron.

[–] Tabbycat (765) 3 years ago

I think it’s pretty obvious in John’s final two speeches, one to the silent black janitor after the concert (“Nothing I’ve done [as a cop] was any more important than you sweeping that floor or eating that sandwich”), the other to Harve (“And that’s all there is to it”).