Five Easy Pieces the road life of its hero. We follow him through bars and bowling alleys, motels and mobile homes, and we find him rebelling against lower-middle-class values even as he embraces them. In one magical scene, he leaps from his car in a traffic jam and starts playing the piano on the truck in front of him; the scene sounds forced, described this way, but Rafelson and Nicholson never force anything, and never have to. Robert Eroica Dupea is one of the most unforgettable characters in American movies. He named the film the best of 1970, and later added it to
Five Easy Pieces (Milo Rau) always looking for the traumatic, tragic moments in the lives of both individuals and a country, because we are most affected and changed in those moments. However, Milo Rau's intention was not to create an accurate representation of the Dutroux affair with "Five Easy Pieces", but a modern tragedy with Dutroux as the starting point. His intention was to make "a children's theatre performance that was risky, unprecedented and virtually impossible." With the life and the crimes of Marc Dutroux as a starting point he searches in "Five Easy Pieces" for the limits of "what children know, feel and do",