The trip
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Trip (alternatively: The Trip) |
| Original title | The trip. A lovely sort of death. |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | Original 85 minutes German version 78 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roger Corman |
| script | Jack Nicholson |
| production | Roger Corman, Ronald Sinclair , American International Pictures |
| music | Michael Bloomfield , The American Music Band |
| camera | Archie R. Dalzell |
| cut | Ronald Sinclair |
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The Trip is a film by Roger Corman from the year 1967 . The topics of self-perception and hallucinations as a result of LSD consumption are taken up and processed. It was made by American International Pictures .
action
Paul Groves is a commercial director and finds himself in a personal crisis after his wife Sally has separated from him and wants to get a divorce. From this situation Paul wants to find out something about himself and "come to terms" with himself - under the guidance of his friend John he goes on his first LSD trip.
In the following, the perceptions and hallucinations as well as the actions of Paul during his trip are described. Psychedelic images, sexual ideas, fears and dreams are shown. While he has euphoric feelings at the beginning, he sees himself dying in the meantime. Paul walks through various recurring scenes - sometimes you can only tell from the costumes whether it happens in his imagination or in reality. His actions are not always logically understandable.
Paul leaves John's house when John is not paying attention. He wanders around, still under the influence of LSD, and meets his friend Glenn, who has a penchant for men who take LSD. They fall in love. Glenn asks him if he has found the insight he was looking for. Paul says he'll think about it tomorrow. At this moment the picture with Paul's face stops and breaks like glass, with which the film ends.
The soundtrack of the same name, borrowed from rock and jazz, was also the debut album of the psychedelic rock band Electric Flag . The track Peter's Trip is the signature tune of the film.
Reviews
- Lexicon of International Films : From today's point of view a "zeitgeist" remarkable film because it tries to use the means of cinematic aesthetics (up to the "psychedelic colors") to approach a socially relevant topic at the time. It is just as interesting how it fails: the film has no sense of where the tragic in its story ends and the absurd begins.
- Cinema : The psychedelic scenes transform the homage to the hallucinogen LSD, which was popular in the late 60s, into a beautifully crazy picture of time. Conclusion: Crazy trip into a drugged-out era.
- Protestant film observer : The very promising attempt to translate the visions of a young American in an LSD intoxication into fantastic images got stuck in the camera engineering arts and crafts. However, since the film does not propagate LSD, but keeps a cautious to cautionary distance, it is nevertheless possible for adults. (Review No. 66/1969)
literature
- Wayne Glausser: Cultural encyclopedia of LSD. McFarland & Company, Jefferson NC 2011.
See also
Not only because of its cast, but also because of the theme of the search for meaning, "The Trip" became the direct cinematic model for " Easy Rider " (1969), the cult film of the late 1960s.
Web links
- The trip in the Internet Movie Database (English)
literature
- Robert Zion: Roger Corman. The rebellion of the immediate . 320 pp., Norderstedt 2018, ISBN 978-3-7481-0101-7 . Pp. 229-238.