www.imdb.com/title/tt0081237
"Why won't you go to the moon".
Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam war, (socially and errantly
considered as the kick off point for the biker gang origin), the US
Military worries about a sudden increase in psychological trauma
suffered by its personel, (at the time PTSD was only just coming to
light), and when a Major on a space mission at the last moment refuses
the mission a set of events is put into play where a radical military
psychiatrist assumes control of medevil castle estate operated by the
US military as a special centre for high level officers. Arriving at
the castle the psychiatrist promptly shakes everything up by informing
the hardcore military staff that the new therapy will be defined by
allowing all of the inmates to engage in the fantasy that has brought
them there.
The Ninth Configuration is probably the most underrated film of the
1980s, mostly because Stacey Keach had fallen from grace and the
advent of the Star Wars blcokbuster concept but every film under
scrutiny as no longer relevant unless in took in at least $250
million.
- BIKER ALERT -
consider the scene on Endor in The Return of the Jedi with Luke and
Leia when they are being chased by the Storm Troopers in the forest as
'future biker'
- BIKER ALERT END -
The Ninth Configuration ultimately utilizes the Biker symbology near
the end of the film as both reality and theatre of the absurd, (if
you watch it you'll understand), which works from a film perspective
but in context of this posting block speaks to where the Biker stopped
being someone who rode on a motorcycle but rather as something bigger
and in all truth....
"the biker became a cog of exactly what supposedly he was fighting in
the first place."
T.
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