What was the morale of this movie? I mean it's a great film but what was the deeper message?

It honestly is about the failure of the hippy generation.
By the time the 60 had passed they realized they were all degenerate druggies and all their ideals were bullcrap.

In the 1970's it was impossible to get fired

This film, and Thompson’s actual work, is a giant pleb filter. Most people who read him can only go “lol drugs amirite??”, without even naming one solid core theme besides that. The movie basically spells it out for you, so if you can’t get it by watching, I feel sorry for you.

This is bat country

It was created by the CIA in order to normalise drug use and hedonistic lifestyles.

morale is that both sides are fucking retarded and basically fuck them do you own thing because nobody will care in 50 years

This.

>I’m so enlightened and smart that I don’t even give answer because I’m that enlightened and smart
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These. Book explains these points better.

That’s why every character who uses drugs is shown to be a psychotic mess?

To be fair, Fear and Loathing is the weakest of Thompson's works; Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, or The Great Shark Hunt are far better examples.

Not gonna spoonfeed your baby ass. And if this WAS reddit, you’d have a succinct reply upboted to the top. In fact, if you’re really interested, go find an old reddit thread on the subject, and I’m sure you’ll get a very clear and simple response for your dim ass to feel accomplished, instead of just making up your own mind about a film. I guess what I’m saying here is you need to go back.

No, it's just a shitty movie based on a shitty book that wanted to get young people think that drugs are fun.
Literally that's it. Whatever meaning Hunter Thompson supposedly put in there, is bullshit. He just wanted his readers to think drugs are crazy and fun and cool and they must do them.

the movie explains it as well. it gets fucking narrated for christs sake

Ah here we go. Just like I said in this post
All the plebs come out of the woodwork to denounce it as “it’s all about drugs guyz. Lol degenerates praise kek!” Because they’re too ashamed to admit they didn’t see the deeper meaning or theme.

>I've never read anything that Thompson wrote
Thanks for letting us know user

I'm not sure Thompson had a deeper message than life is stranger than anyone knows. He focused on the extraordinary, no matter how mad the environment. Hell's Angels, hippies, politicians, it was all the same to him: chaos, hysteria, hilarity and ultimately depression.

fucking idiot

Have you read the book user? it has literary value beyond pure drug-fueled lunacy, but those are the fun and humourous bits that keep you engaged.

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He explored the weird parts and people of the world and came out of it as appreciative. In the end, dude had cancer and knew, from all of his experiences with other people and from traveling around the world, that he was better off dying then rather than dragging it all out. He didn't wait until his life was ending to start living it, and maybe that isn't his ultimate message, but that's what I got from his work and have happily applied it. Live life so that if you were to be given a terminal diagnosis, you could say you've already filled out that bucket list and then end it on your own terms.

Plus, he didn't get to live long enough to see Johnny Depp get cucked

this, the movie explicitly discusses it

>What was the morale of this movie?
Never forget to put on your golf shoes. Impossible to walk in this muck, no footing at all.

they literally said it in the film

youtube.com/watch?v=VmyZ850bDpc

>he was better off dying then rather than dragging it all out.
His friend Ralph Steadman also explained it as not not liking being trapped - no matter the situation, he'd also give himself a way out of a situation he didn't like even if that was suicide. Which probably comes from Thompson's interest in existentialism

refusing to believe this

The counter-culture movement of the 60's and early 70's (as well as all the smaller, shorter lived university-aged and based ones that have come since) meant nothing because they're all too self-absorbed and always end up striking bargains for survival on purely personal terms (jobs, careers, houses, marriage - everything they once rejected). The freaks of every generation are always left behind. The forces of old and evil will always win because we crave stability and sanity and clarity, which Hunter S. Thompson always rejected even after the high-water mark of San Francisco in '75.

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The book was a critique of the counter culture of the time. The movie was about getting fucked up in Las Vegas.

He was pretty much the poster child for high functioning.

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Nice.