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THE
JESUS TRIP
In an effort to capitalize on the art/biker
concept started by Easy Rider, director
Russ Mayberry fills his film with numerous
picturesque sequences of desert motorcycle
riding, strong amounts of religious symbolism,
and silent contemplation. But the end result
is far more muddled and misguided than anything
cocaine fueled Dennis Hopper could ever
come up with. A motorcycle gang, smuggling
heroin in their bikes, are pursued by police
and rival gangs. Taking refuge in a convent
located in a remote region of the Arizona
desert, they capture a policeman who was
following them, taunt him and let him go.
This treatment inspires a brutal relentlessness
on the cop’s part. When the bikers
are forced to leave the convent, they take
a novice nun hostage. By the end of the
film, she has fallen in love with Waco,
the gang's leader.
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