Peter Sellers is a lawyer, very conflicted about his upcoming nuptials. He meets and falls in love with beautiful hippie-chick Leigh Talyor-Young. He tunes in, turns on, drops out, jilts his fiancee at the altar, is happy for a while, then becomes disillusioned with the hippie thing. Then it turns out it was all in his imagination! We see him at the altar (again) as his bride is walking up the aisle. We assume he'll marry her this time, and live happily ever after, content with his narrow but secure life. But no, he leaves his fiancee at the altar again (in real life, this time), and starts running down the street. He's heading back to the hippie scene, we assume. Wrong again. A fella asks him where he is going and he shouts "I don't know!" That's the end. So this is American manhood, caught between responsibility and freedom. I love the 60's ambience of this movie.
The wimmins:
Leigh Taylor-Young is so startlingly beautiful, at first I dismissed her as mere window-dressing. But her performance stayed with me. Her persona somehow transcends the film, and even transcends her physical charms.
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