Articles tagged "cars"
Two-Lane Blacktop
Directed by Monte Hellman
United States | 1971
When he forcefully regales his passengers with the particulars of his Pontiac as cited in the car manual, one gets the sense that he doesn’t grasp any real working knowledge of these terms, only that he obtains pleasure from sounding esoteric and loaded. This artificiality extends to his personal life, which he mythologizes in many mutating shapes and sizes; at one point he’s an ex-military officer, another time he’s a man who abandoned his wife and daughter for life on the road, and later he’s the guardian of Taylor and Wilson. Slowly this role-playing transforms from pestering to deeply tragic and deformed, the vague ramblings of a dreamer…