"Vagabond" - Anyone Else Think It's a Grim "Easy Rider" for the 80s?

Okay, so I just watched "Vagabond" (1985). Damn, what a downer. But a good downer, if you know what I mean. Total opposite of those flashy, feel-good flicks we were getting back then. It totally reminded me of "Easy Rider," but instead of Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper searching for freedom on motorcycles, we've got Mona, a young woman just... rejecting everything and freezing to death. Brutal! Anyone else pick up on this connection? The whole rejection of societal norms, the hitchhiking lifestyle, the ultimate price paid for 'freedom' (or whatever you wanna call Mona's deal). But where "Easy Rider" had a glimmer of hope, a fleeting sense of brotherhood, "Vagabond" is just bleak. Like, really bleak. That scene where she's just totally indifferent to the professor trying to help her... ouch. And the end? No dramatic shootout, no defiant last words. Just... gone. I guess that's the point, right? No glory in it, just the cold, hard reality of choosing to be outside the system. Chloé Sevigny did a similar thing in "Kids" (1995) a decade later, but in a different style and perspective and without the tragic ending. I'm no big cinephile, so maybe I'm way off base with the "Easy Rider" comparison. But there's something about the anti-establishment vibe and the fatalistic ending that hit me the same way. What did you guys think? One thing that hit me hard was just how isolated she becomes. There were glimmers there where she connected with folks, but they all just fell apart. Anyone else get that feeling? that it wasn't entirely her fault she ended up like that, or was she just doomed from the start?