THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Then the hero steals an airplane, flies into the desert, sees the girl’s 1952 Buick, buzzes it a couple of times, lands, and they go into the desert and make love.  They make love, in fact, at Zabriskie Point, which is the lowest point in the United States.  That is just as symbolic as Mount Whitney, which is the highest, but colder.

Ebert/Zabriskie, 1970