Five Easy Pieces

Bobby Dupea, the drifting son of a middle-class family, works on oilrigs in the South. One day, he resigns his job, heading to alaska, leaving rayette, his girlfriend behind.
Bobby uses his alienation, his rootlessness, his “freedom” as a way of getting himself out of difficult situations. When things begin to turn sour, he can always say, “I don’t belong here,” and move on. Although the film expects us to share Bobby’s scepticism towards clichés, it does not ignore the moral appraisals that he scoffs at so cavalierly. We can see that rayette is utterly dependent on him, and that he has encouraged her quite recklessly, without any concern about what she may suffer whenever he decides to move on. (Beverly Walker)

In the presence of Kenneth Lonergan.