Movie about failure of hippies 60's dream -- nothing else.

The movie is simply about the failure of the hippies 60's dream.

The daughter Rose is just symbolic of the what the hippies were trying to create. Think of her as a hippie Frankenstein. She is the "experiment" that never worked as planned -- an experiment out of control of Jack and the hippies. As Jack says near the end, "Everything is for sale." He finally admits that the capitalists are really not much different from him, and tells his daughter to leave the island and get an education.

Having the daughter represent what the hippies were trying to do is perfect, as fathers are creators. And, having Jack dying and on an island is perfect as well, since Jack is like the last true pure hippie trying to hold on to a dream.

For those that think this movie is about personal relationships, or whatever, you missed the whole point of the movie. Notice at the final scene you see the modern capitalist money producing version of the co-op farm in Vermont -- apparently working and successful. This is to contrast with the extremist purity vision/dream of the hippie culture. Also, it's to show that not all of the hippies ideas failed.

What I like is you can see these results of the experiment spilled out all over the screen.