Zabriskie Point framed America as a police-state surveillance culture

Evidence

Zabriskie Point was little more than a violent anecdote opening with a conflict on the Berkeley campus and unfolding over the course of one long afternoon. Inspired by the taunts of Black Panthers (including Kathleen Cleaver), Mark steals a plane. Daria, who works for a Los Angeles real estate company in a police state skyscraper of total surveillance, is driving through Death Valley to Phoenix for a rendezvous with her boss and lover. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1550