"Five Easy Pieces" (1970) Robert Dupea explains his life to his dying father: Robert: I don't know if you'd be particularly interested in hearing anything about me. My life, most of it doesn't add up to much that I could relate as a way of life that you'd approve of. I move around a lot.. not because I'm looking for anything really, but.. because I'm getting away from things that get bad if I stay. Auspicious beginnings, you know what I mean? [ sighs ] I'm trying to imagine your half of this conversation. My feeling is, I don't know.. but if you could talk, we wouldn't be talking. That's pretty much the way that it got to be before I left. Are you alright? I don't know what to say. [ starts crying ] Tia suggested that we try to.. I don't know.. I think she feels that we've got some understanding to reach. She totally denies the fact that we were never that comfortable with one another. The best that I can do is apologize. We both know that I was never really that good at it, anyway. I'm sorry it didn't work out.