On the list of road movies

Reason for being on the list: The movie "Go to the End" has a poor box office.

Classic index: ★★

Foreign road movies began in the 1960s, and then they got out of hand. Now, it is impossible to count how many road movies there are. Road movies can also be studied as a separate topic, but China's road movies are particularly simple. 200 1 movie "Go to the End" can already represent the whole road movie in China, because so far, there is only one road movie in China. Foreign road movies are very experimental at first and have heavy connotations. Later foreign road movies are mostly inheritors, and always incorporate a lot of thoughts about society and life. China's road movies started from commercial movies, which are less obscure and more relaxed.

Plot:

Xiao Wang, the driver, thinks that people make a living by delivering cars and repeat the monotonous life on strange roads all day, but Molly, a hitchhiking girl, breaks the procedure of life. Molly went to see her boyfriend Adong in Xiao Wang's car, but she witnessed a black robbery with Adong. They were inexplicably involved and became Adong's hostages. The unwilling underworld is bound to get back the treasure, and the police can't sit idly by, and a chase is bound to start. Since "Go to the End" is a commercial film with my sister's connotation, the box office is a big standard to judge him. It's a pity that this movie was a fiasco at the box office. Supposedly, the publicity of this film is not weak, and the concept of road film has been repeatedly hyped, starring Karen Mok, Wujiang and Zhang Zhenyue, but the audience did not buy it. Obviously, a commercial road movie can be successful not only by accumulating paragraphs, but also by love, violence, police, beautiful scenery and touching music. China's only road movie begins with a comedy and ends with a tragedy. To paraphrase a line from the movie: We have reached the end and need to start over.

Don't turn around

Reason for listing: don't turn around, don't walk into the light, don't step into the shadow. Life is a process of choice, but it will never stop.

Classic index: ★★★★

Plot:

An obvious traffic sign on the poster of the movie Don't Look Back seems to tell people that this is a road film. Yes, this is a standard road movie, but it brings the audience a sinister and almost crazy story that other road movies don't have. Bad luck Bobby owed a lot of money in Las Vegas, so he wanted to run away, put all the mess behind him and start his life again. Unfortunately, however, his car broke down in a desolate town in Arizona. The residents of this town are all freaks. The original chic tour around the world has turned into a thrilling abnormal game. He just wants to escape from the town, but since he entered the town, he has been doomed to a journey that cannot be turned back. Bobby was seduced by Grace, the most mysterious beauty in town. When they were entangled, Grace's husband Jack bumped into him. Unexpectedly, Jack paid Bobby to kill his wife to get insurance money. Faced with the temptation of money, embarrassed Bobby decided to accept the job. Just as he was about to start work, Grace proposed a counter-plan, asking Bobby to kill Jack and then fly away with her. However, this is far from the end of the story, and even weirder things have not yet arrived.

Prison break three kings

Reason for listing: Homer's epic road edition

Classic index: ★★★★☆.

The plot of a play

The background of Prison Break of Three Kings is the 1930s. This is a prison on the Mississippi River. The prisoners are working hard. One day, the three of them escaped from prison! This is Alfred, Peter and Delma. Alfred used to be a lawyer, and he was eloquent. It was his glib tongue that attracted these two followers. The destination of these three people is Alfred's cabin on the Mississippi River, because he said he had hidden a treasure worth $65,438+200,000 pounds there. However, they only have four days, because in four days, the place where the hut is located will be washed into a Wang Yang by the hydropower company. For this great task, three criminals full of comedy began their escape journey in a staggered way ... This film is full of ancient Athenian myths, and their experiences in the journey are closely linked with mythical characters and legends. First, three people met a sea witch who lured travelers with songs, and three people were deceived, so Pete disappeared. As for the mythical cyclops, cyclops is a fierce cyclops missionary. He pretended to make friends with them and robbed them, but at last the Olympians took care of them. This film may not be a road film in the traditional sense, because the protagonists are traveling in a strange baroque world. If a road or a journey really has an end, then whether it's a Mercedes-Benz motorcycle or walking barefoot, the place we finally arrive at should be our spiritual home. The ending of the story is also quite mythical, and the protagonists are finally happily rushed to the yearning place by the hydropower company. Everything began to change and life became better.

Eighth day

Reason for being on the list: The road to life is closely related to perseverance, to a certain extent, to emotional intelligence, but not to IQ.

Classic index: ★★★★★★★

The plot of a play

At the beginning of the movie The Eighth Day, I paid attention to it because of its novelty! At the end of the film, I was moved and remembered! Who is George? George is a retarded boy. One day, George met Harry who was quiet in his career but separated from his wife in life. Like most of these movies, Harry was afraid to avoid George at first. But slowly, the seemingly sound side of mind was changed by the seemingly mentally retarded side, and life began to be re-understood.

The difference between this movie and other movies with similar themes is that the audience will feel like a butterfly in Zhouzhuang. Who is abnormal, Harry or George? Generally speaking, most aspects are normal, but are most aspects correct? Are there any happy people? Did we buy bamboo slips and return pearls? Is it the opposite direction?

Kalifornia

Reason for being on the list: Typical variation after the combination of road films and crime films.

Classic index: ★★★★★

The plot of a play

Black Boy in California tells the story of a writer who follows the killer's footsteps with the photographer's wife for his serial killer novel, but in order to share the high cost of the trip, he has to pull in a pair of young men and women who describe sloppy. But since then, I have embarked on a dangerous journey of narrow escape. The film doesn't portray the writers and roles played by david duchovny well, but it may be because the images of killer Ollie and his girlfriend Aidai are too full. Ollie is vulgar, aggressive and manic, and is the representative of extreme evil. Although Adai is mentally retarded, she has a silly kindness in her heart. She has always cherished her friendship with Carrie and is looking forward to living together in a big house in California. Poor thing, she fell in love with Ollie only because he has the "most charming" eyes in the world and won't hit her most of the time. Ollie doesn't really love her. All he needs is a girl in a tropical costume, because it looks more like a pair of Lulu mandarin ducks. As a road movie, Black Boy in California obviously lacks many cultural symbols. But the performances of Blatter Peter and Juliet Lewis attracted almost all our attention. Moreover, the director skillfully turned California into a virtual paradise similar to the ultimate, which made the film have the meaning of chasing dreams. As for the motive of the murderer, the film is just the tip of the iceberg. A painful childhood experience? A real nightmare that can't be waved away? These problems eventually become faintly visible.

Desert witch

Reason for being on the list: The first film to put transvestite and homosexuality on the screen after the genre theme was introduced in the 1990s.

Classic index: ★★★★★

The plot of a play

The hero of Devil in the Desert includes a transgender and two homosexuals. The three of them crossed the desert by bus, dressed as macaws and performed cross-dressing performances in different places. Use a poem by Bai Hua to describe them: "This dazzling white love, this dazzling white summer, this dazzling white neuropathy!" Generally speaking, except for some unpleasant experiences in two small towns where we stayed-a bar in town A was viciously provoked by an overbearing fat woman, and the next morning we found that the bus body was painted with cursing and insulting words. In town B, we were almost raped by a group of local ruffians, and the bus broke down in the desert, so we finally met the passing rescuers, who wore colorful makeup and clothes. And during the three days and two nights' journey, the three people seem to have found some other meanings in life. The film has excellent texture, and won not only the Best Costume Design Award of the British Film Academy the following year, but also the Best Makeup Award. With gorgeous images and sincere ultimate concern, the director portrayed gay song and dance performers living on the edge of society, which is regarded as a heterogeneous group by most people. They encounter many difficulties in marriage, survival and communication. Their inner world is not lacking in confusion and confusion, but they also have a spontaneous optimism and kindness to the outside world. The three protagonists are terence stamp, a senior character actor, Hugo Weaving, a famous actor and guy pearse, a young actor. The performance was wonderful. Those exaggerated and funny costumes and dances in ABBA music are eye-opening, and the shabby bus named "Desert Devil" has become the most enchanting and arrogant symbol in road movies.

grand central terminal

Reason for listing: the warmest movie

Classic index: ★★★★★

The plot of a play

Dora of Grand Central Station is a bad old lady who cheats money at Grand Central Station under the guise of writing and sending letters. So such a trip is also a spiritual baptism for her. From betraying Joshua viciously at the beginning to rescuing him with sympathy; I want to abandon Joshua halfway, slip away alone, and finally have a blood relationship with Joshua. In this process, Dora's inner kindness was stimulated a little. Especially after meeting the kind driver on the road, she even fell in love with him.

The story of Strede.

Reason for listing: the most stubborn movie

Classic index: ★★★★

The plot of a play

Strede's Story, a road movie with a lawn mower as its means of transportation, is adapted from a true story that happened in the United States before 1994. Strede, 73, is in poor health. He has to walk with crutches, but he has no driver's license and is stubborn. In order to visit his brother who had a sudden stroke for more than ten years, he drove an old lawn mower 1966 from Iowa to Wisconsin, and hobbled 300 miles on the Midwest Plain at the speed of 15 miles per hour. Like many road movies, Strede met many people along the way: a pregnant girl who ran away from home, a crazy woman who killed a deer on her way to work every day, a kind priest, a traumatized World War II veteran, and a group of cycling teenagers who roared by. Strede stopped the lawn mower and greeted them with a smile. The unfortunate experience of Strede's daughter, Rose, emerged intermittently in his conversation with passers-by. He has profound hints to strangers, and he also gets some inspiration from them. Lynch, who has always been erratic and eccentric, changed his gloomy and heavy image this time, looked at the American countryside with loving eyes, and described a simple journey of years like a prose poem. Under his lens, Ai Hehua Amano stretches like waves in the sunset. Under the golden sunset, an old lawn mower slowly chugged along the narrow road winding away in the distance, making people feel like spring breeze, moving forward with the firm will of the old man ... The soft piano and crisp guitar chords in the movie soundtrack are interlaced, and the old man's eyes are clear, firm and shining with kindness. 79-year-old actor Richard farnsworth's performance was very touching and moving. The freeze-frame scene at the end of the film is full of stars, which turns a thousand words into silence and makes people feel melancholy and sad.

29 palm trees

Reason for listing: the most destructive movie.

Classic index: ★★★★★

The plot of a play

Twenty-nine palm trees, the name of a small town in the film, are also the destination of the two protagonists' trip. Judging from the name, it is obviously utopia. Because in such a tropical desert, there are probably no palm trees growing in a humid climate. Indeed, until the end of the film, the town did not appear. David and Garcia fled the noisy city, but they couldn't avoid people from that world. Finally, they died together in this scorching desert. There seems to be no consistent road background and characters' own situation here. Although the photographer's protagonist is also looking for inspiration, what we see is more about the wrestling between two lovers. They are always in a changeable mood, arguing or ecstatic about a little thing, but in the end they all have surging sex. And their expression of love is closer to this rough and hungry regional temperament. The director did not directly explain one thing, but used a figurative way. It is the hero's fear of the city and his own identity. Garcia was kicked out of the house by David and hid in the street aimlessly. And David's final destruction also comes from the final loss of dignity. As a man, he was raped by another man. Perhaps more people would like to see this as an erotic film, because the film will be interspersed with two lovers having sex everywhere, or in hotels, or in roadside outdoor swimming pools, or even on a warm rock. But halfway through, they once felt lonely, but the car that happened to pass by made them feel that there were people like themselves. But the fact is that they may be hurt by fellow travelers at any time. This is a paradox.

Diarios de motocicleta

Reason for listing: the deepest movie

Classic index: ★★★★★

The plot of a play

Motorcycle diaries is a biography of a famous person with a road film as the carrier. The protagonist in the film must be familiar to everyone. Ernesto Guevara, a famous Cuban revolutionary hero, through his journey through Latin America at the age of 23, not only revealed the harsh reality of Latin American society in 1950s, but also recorded the spiritual growth track of the hero in his youth. The film did not announce the existence of a hero as soon as it came up. On the contrary, it was more like a realistic portrayal of an ordinary young man's restless youth. Twenty-three-year-old Ernesto Guevara, like every young man full of energy and dreams, started out on the road just to get on the road. The winding road in front of us seems to have endless interesting things waiting for them, including beautiful scenery along the way and enthusiastic girls from different regions. However, with the deepening of the journey, the wounds hidden under the calm surface of Latin American society began to show one by one. People living in poverty, homeless children, leprosy patients in the depths of the Amazon River ... These stories happened one after another, which made the hearts of two young people start to become heavy. The nihilistic madness gradually faded away, replaced by calm and rational thinking. The formation of this year-long Fandori finally ended on Ernesto Guevara's 24th birthday. He took care of the isolated leprosy patients in a rural hospital in Peru as a farewell to himself. Perhaps at this time, he felt helpless about studying medicine, and revolution was the only way to cure the national disaster.

Korean road movies

Road Movie

English Name: Road Movie

Original: In-shik Kim

Adapted from Jin Dawu

Director: In-shik Kim

Starring: Xu Lin (1)

Zheng Zan Huang Zhengmin

Ran Xu Zheng Chan (1)

Music: Zheng Guanghao

Fashion design: Jin Xiangxi

Type: plot/emotion

Korean level: 18 years old or above

Duration: 1 14 minutes

Producer: Sidus

Release: Big Blue Film Company.

Language: Korean

Country: Korea

Release date: 10 2002 10/8 (Korea)

Awards: In-shik Kim and Huang Zhenmin at the 3rd Busan Film Critics Award.

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abstract

This is the first official gay movie in Korea, which is about the emotional problems between men. KIM Suk won, the fund manager, became penniless and homeless after the financial turmoil and had to wander around.

On the way, Xiyuan drank alone and was depressed. He doesn't want to get drunk on the road and become a beggar. He tried to commit suicide many times and was saved by the oldest beggar, Dazhi. I lived a beggar's life with Dazhi, but Xiyuan was not willing to be a beggar and came up with "three ways". "As long as one of them works, I can leave here". But no matter looking for friends, relatives or wives, they all failed. During this period, they met my ordinary friend Shu Min and a stripper. Zhu Yi loves Dae-sik very much, but Dae-sik can't love Zhu Yi as much. When she was looking for his wife's help with Xiyuan, Dae-sik had sex with the waiter in the coffee shop and was caught by Xiyuan. From then on, Xiyuan thought that Dae-sik was good to him "for his ass" and often sneered at him. Although they worked hard together to make a living, Xi Yuan was full of disgust for Dae-sik and wanted to leave him all the time.

More dramatically, Tianyuan asked Shu Min to take him to find a job in order to leave Dayuan. Dayuan left Zhu Yi for Tianyuan, but Zhu Yi left Tianyuan. When she saw Dayuan's absence, she didn't want to be with him. ...

After some changes, Xiyuan and Dazhi came together, but Xiyuan's affection for Dazhi didn't increase much, just had some hazy feelings. They worked as coolies to make a living together, experienced Shu Min's suicide together, and went to Dae-sik's ex-wife's house to see Dae-sik's son, but they didn't recognize him. Everyone leads a hard life.

In a quarrel, Xiyuan learned that Dae-sik had contacted an old colleague to ask for a position, but because Dae-sik didn't want to leave him, Xiyuan left angrily, and Dae-sik was injured in a mountain explosion at the construction site.

Tian Yuan, who was about to leave, temporarily changed his mind and went back to Dae-sik to meet him. But when he saw Dae-sik who was really dying in the dark salty warehouse, Dae-sik said his long-hidden question: "Can I love you?" At this time, Tae-won had nothing to say. Two people hug to each other naked in the warehouse, tin yuan also looked at seriously injured plants, stopped breathing.

In the end, Uehara left only the tattered light-colored suit he wore when he went bankrupt, and embarked on a journey alone with his past. ...

Highway microfilm

Reason for listing: the shortest road microfilm.

Classic index: ★★★★★

The plot of a play

Free and easy Karen Mok plays himself in the micro-movie. Surrounded by the spotlight, people lose themselves. Karen Mok, who went to the United States to perform, "pried the class", followed the agent in a Cadillac and went to the road of freedom in his heart-route 66 across the United States. The historical sites here, the free air here, and even the decline here have given Karen Mok time to satisfy his inner self with a camera in route 66 where people come and go. In a small shop, she met a photographer. They have known each other for a long time, and explained what real freedom is with free and easy road trip.

Persuaded by the photographer, Karen Mok returned to reality and continued his career. Obviously, the film is not over yet, and many details make people look forward to the sequel. A 90-second movie explains the pursuit of freedom, and this microfilm is also the shortest road movie in history.