Like Copploa reworked Conrad when he directed 'Apocalypse Now', Behr and Rose have reworked 'Easy Rider' to fit the emerging millenium. Two (former?) drug addicts meet in a rehabilitation institue and recognize their common interest in the 1969 road movie. Together they escape, hoping to find one of the bikes from 'Easy Rider'.

A great difference to other road movies is that the two girls encouter few physical obstacles, but tension is achived through their emotional distress. The film seems to conclude that leaving your life behind is impossible, and if it was doable it would solve no problems. On the thematic level, I have problems extracing more than that and the films remains, to me, a roadmovie - a tale of a travel.

Watching the film still fills me with pleasure because the girls do what so many of us dream of doing: leave home for something unknown. Though many references are made to Easy Rider, the most explicit one seems to be the plot itself - an alternative continuation of the clip where Wyatt throws his watch on the ground; an alternative use of the freedom. Less psychedelic than it's muse, the film is also relevant to the new millenium: psychedelia does, generally, belong to the past. That said, I find this impressively relevant and impressively similar to Easy Rider. It must be the Easy Rider of our time.