In accordance with international practice, the "film collection" that is necessary for the weekend is still sent. The theme of this time sounds more high "road movie", so that you can experience a different "fast and furious" in 10 movies, and dream of self-driving travel after watching it.
<h1>"The End of the Road"</h1>
Thelma & Louise
Region: United States
Duration: 130 minutes
Road Theme: Feminism
Synopsis: Thelma is a housewife and Louise is a waitress. The two are good friends and bored with the boring life, so they plan to take advantage of the weekend to go out and relax.
In the evening, the two drove to a bar and decided to relax with a little drink.
As a result, the two men were so beautiful that they attracted the attention of the "hunter-killer", who attempted to rape Thelma while Helma was drunk, but Louise arrived in time to shoot and kill him.
Originally, he only wanted to relax, but because of accidental killing, he was forced to go into exile to resist.
On the way, they encounter robbers disguised as students to ride a ride, swindling them of what they have. This incident made Thelma, who had always been cowardly and brainless, grow up and start to calm down.
Then their escape begins to become "exciting":
Rob shops when you don't have money;
When they met the police who arrested them, they arrested them and locked them in the trunk of the car;
When they met the driver who harassed them, they set fire to other people's cars...
But there will always be an end to the road to escape, and what awaits them at the end?
The meaning of travel: Thelma has always lived under the discrimination and oppression of her husband; Louise has never been well respected by others.
The film was labeled "feminist" 27 years ago, because the two encountered various "male rights" characters along the way, they relied on mutual support and encouragement, various rebellions, and gradually became independent and confident during the journey.
After their female consciousness slowly awakened, the dramatic conflict also came, and it was not so important who was the winner in the end, and the friendship and courage they showed during the journey were even more touching.
<h1>California Killer</h1>
California
Duration: 117 minutes
Road Theme: Travel Companions
Synopsis: Brian is a writer who is preparing to write a serial killer novel, and in order to find material, Brian encourages his wife to go to the remnants of the murderer in the real case and do a field investigation.
The trip required a lot of money, and in order to share the cost of the trip, they pulled Iny and his wife.
Unexpectedly, Earth was a fugitive murderer, and this time he was going to take his wife to California, and he was simply a murderer:
For the sake of robbery, kill the staff of the gas station;
In order to escape, he kills the policemen who come to the rescue of the Brians;
Finally, in order to facilitate the escape, he simply abducted the Brians.
The Brian couple's journey to find materials is destined to be a dangerous journey of nine deaths...
The meaning of travel: During the journey, do not easily trust anyone, especially do not judge people by their appearance, you never know what kind of soul you have under the face. In this popular society of donkey friends, there are crises everywhere.
Seemingly kind and enthusiastic people, may have long been ill-intentioned, not everyone has the wisdom to break free from danger, the best way is to understand enough, and then believe.
There is always compassion in the hearts of bloody people, but cold-blooded killers do not.
<h1>Midnight Rush</h1>
Midnight Run
Duration: 126 minutes
Highway Theme: Cooperation
Synopsis: Jack, a bounty hunter, receives a special mission to hunt down the criminal Jonathan in New York, and he can get a $100,000 bounty.
Jonathan, an accountant for a Chicago gang leader, is wanted by the gang and the FBI for embezzling $15 million from the gang.
In order to avoid being tracked by others, Jack hides various information while circling with Jonathan.
In the exchange between the two, it is found that Jonathan chose to betray because of his disgust for the evil of the gangsters; while Jack found that when he was an undercover policeman, he was also planted by the gangsters, so that he lost his job and his wife and daughters were separated.
From the beginning of mutual deception, to the later decision to cooperate sincerely, to fight against the pursuit of others, and to embark on the road of escape together, what they encountered was both funny and exciting.
The meaning of travel: The power of a person is always limited, but the power of cooperation is indeed infinite.
The whole film is full of witty and funny pictures, laughing from beginning to end, but also making people understand the meaning of like-mindedness: not everyone can cooperate, can work together harmoniously against the outside of the two people, at least have the same goals and values.
And traveling happens to help two people who have no intersection, find an incredible point of convergence, and find a companion who can struggle and progress together, which is a kind of luck.
<h1>"Desert Demon"</h1>
The Adventures of Priscilla
Region: United Kingdom
Duration: 104 minutes
Road themes: gay, transvestite
Synopsis: Dick is invited by his ex-wife to go to alice springs in australia to do a shemales show, and before leaving, Dick calls his friends Roff and Adam, who are also Gay.
Then the three of them drove the bus and embarked on a joyful "journey through the australian desert".
But the journey seems to be different from the happiness imagined, and they are discriminated against because of "orientation problems".
While passing through the town where they rested and settled, they were scolded by local residents as "the perverts of grandfathers in women's clothes", so the three injured people had to leave in disgrace.
This time, Dick drives the wrong path, and the three are stranded in a strange place, meet Bob, a mechanic, and accidentally harvest love.
Then, under Bob's guidance, the three finally arrive at the casino, and to Dick's surprise, there is another accident waiting for him: his ex-wife actually brings their child Jeff to the scene to watch his shemale show.
Dick worries that his son knows that he is gay, and he is afraid that his son will hate his outfit...
The Meaning of Travel: It's a controversial film, but it's a classic, introducing a whole new group of people and causing deep thought.
The three support and encourage each other, making people ignore their identity as transvestites and homosexuals, and only care about their joys and sorrows.
The world is diverse, and we must learn to understand and accept different groups, and have more tolerance and respect for them.
<h1>"Counterfeit Family"</h1>
We're the Millers
Duration: 110 minutes
Road Theme: Family Affection
Synopsis: David is a civilian drug dealer, because he lost the boss's "goods", he can only ship back another box of drugs from Mexico, make up for it, and get a huge commission.
In order to avoid risks, David decided to find a few people to pretend to be family members so that they would not arouse any suspicion.
So David found three neighbors who shared the same rent and encouraged them to join the program. So the four unrelated people, for this huge commission, embarked on the road of "transporting drugs" together.
Along the way, the four people hate each other and constantly quarrel, but for the sake of a common goal, they can only endure.
Arriving at the designated base, the four people were dumbfounded, where there was only one box of these drugs, but N boxes, enough for 2 tons! The four people were terrified to carry the boxes of drugs to the car, and when they returned, they were also thrilling.
The car broke down on the road and did not dare to call the traffic police;
Encountered a family of three, wanting them to help them drag the car to the repair shop, only to find that the father of the family was an anti-drug policeman;
The little boy in the group also fell in love with the daughter of the policeman's family, and felt that the confession was in the middle of the line.
What's even more frightening is that David suddenly receives a phone call, and the superiors say that they have gone to the wrong destination, taken the priceless boutique goods, and are being hunted down by the big drug lord... (Big entertainment suddenly a little distressed about these people, hahahahahaha)
The meaning of the trip: the four people are all low-level little people, drug dealers who have just entered the industry, strippers, self-destructed waste firewood and stray girls who steal for a living, who have done all the "bad things" to survive.
The four people who were originally desperate for money experienced all kinds of thrilling things such as being detained by customs, being chased and killed by drug lords, negotiating with bad people, and dealing with the police, and their lives were hanging in the balance and the fearful escape journey made them suddenly want to live a normal life.
The four people who were originally helpless, unconsciously experienced the feeling of family affection, and they gradually began to change emotionally, protecting each other, just to solve the crisis and live together.
<h1>"Falling Leaves To the Roots"</h1>
Region: Mainland
Highway Theme: Benevolence
Synopsis: Lao Zhao and Lao Liu are farmers who come to Shenzhen to work, drink and chat every day, and establish a deep revolutionary friendship.
Old Liu died one day after getting drunk, because he had said that he must return to his hometown and return to the roots of the fallen leaves. The kind old Zhao decided to bring Lao Liu's body back to his hometown, and a burial journey began.
Old Zhao disguised Lao Liu's ruler as a drunkard, tried to fool through the pass, and began to walk on the mountain road with Lao Liu on his back.
After running around with the body all the way and mixing with the long-distance bus, he encountered robbers, and in the process of searching for finances, he found that Lao Liu was a corpse.
Old Zhao's desperate efforts to protect Old Liu unexpectedly touched the robbers and decided to let them go. A car of people was saved, but no one thanked Old Zhao, but instead drove them out of the car.
Old Zhao continued to move forward with Old Liu on his back, but lost all the money in the hotel.
In order to eat with mixed food, he mixed with other people's funerals, mixed with food and deceitful wine;
Dressing lao Liu as a seriously ill person begging;
After walking all the way and stopping all the way, in the end, Old Zhao finally insisted on being tired and collapsed in the middle of the road, and when he woke up, he was told that Old Liu's body would decompose and must be cremated immediately.
Old Zhao was struggling with his heart, and he was always unwilling to give up, which was an account of Old Liu's life journey.
The meaning of travel: The company of Old Liu has made Old Zhao's life more fun and firm, and in order to draw a perfect end to Old Liu's life, old Zhao must also let him fall leaves and return to his roots.
Along the way, Lao Zhao encountered all kinds of people, good and evil, which made his understanding of the world more and more profound, but never changed his belief in the goal.
Old Zhao has a righteous heart for his best friend, and although he lives a humble life, he strives to maintain kindness. This is a movie with tears in laughter, a classic of domestic road movies.
<h1>"No U-Turns"</h1>
U Turn
Region: France
Duration: 125 minutes
Highway Theme: Human Nature
Synopsis: Bobby, whose life is depressed, is a gambler and owes a lot of gambling debts. He had planned to drive to Las Vegas to pay off his debts, but he didn't want the car to break anchor in the middle of the road.
He had to seek help from a nearby garage, but was blackmailed by a fierce car repairman and forcibly detained his car, and Bobby, who could only do it, was robbed again not long after.
Unlucky, he went to a nearby bar to drink to dispel his sorrows, and then he also hooked up with a beautiful woman Grace, and there seemed to be a small spark of love between the two.
Not long after Grace's husband finds Bobby and asks him to kill Grace, giving him a sum of money after the fact.
However, Grace sees through their schemes and encourages Bobby to kill her husband, embezzle his private property, and then go away with Bobby.
Both want to kill with a knife, and Bobby doesn't want to be involved in the perverted couple, but he falls in love with Grace and decides to help Grace for the sake of money.
Bobby kills someone and prepares to run away from the wind, but is stopped by the police officer, and the police officer and Grace have known each other for a long time, all this is actually a trap?
The Meaning of Travel: The film portrays how an ordinary person is forced into the abyss of sin.
Bobby experienced the most terrible Murphy's Law, the most afraid of encountering things happened to him, life is so helpless.
Weak and incompetent people suddenly become bold, obviously and pitiful in an instant become fierce and vicious, and the person who gives the most care and love hurts himself the most.
<h1>"Walk with Me"</h1>
Stand by Me
Duration: 89 minutes
Highway Theme: Friendship
Synopsis: There is a missing boy in the town, the police have not found a clue, so the four teenagers have a heroic dream and decide to find the boy's body.
They elaborately devised a scam to hide their parents and arrived at the meeting place, ready to go to the suburbs to find clues.
Passing through a huge dump, he was chased by the dogs in the dump and had to hide in hiding.
The four people who managed to escape continued to move forward, while on the train tracks, a little boy played with his heart, running and jumping on the tracks, when the train came, he accidentally got stuck, the other three teenagers did not flinch, and at the last moment he got out of the predicament.
At night, they had to pass through small hills, because they were surrounded by the cries of unknown beasts, and for safety, they decided to take turns guarding.
Dawn continued to move forward, but was blocked by a small river, and the four of them needed to cross the river to the other side to get out of the town. The four boys frolicked in the river for a while and suddenly found themselves crawling with leeches, and even a small friend was bitten by leeches.
Finally getting closer and closer to their destination, they encounter a group of rogue young men with knives...
The meaning of the trip: the four teenagers come from different families, each with their own troubles, and there are constant disputes along the way, but the friendship between the children is very pure, there is no overnight feud, and even they all guard the friends around them.
Several times the teenagers confided in each other, and the belief in never leaving anyone behind and helping each other brought tears to their eyes. The child's heart is the purest, there is no intrigue, encouraging others to have the courage to live out of themselves, this friendship is more noble.
<h1>The Runaway Knight</h1>
Easy Rider
Duration: 95 minutes
Highway Theme: Freedom
Billy and White are two ordinary hippie young hippies who discuss the money from a drug deal and ride their handsome motorcycle to New Orleans for a carnival.
On the way, they passed by isolated bohemian people who wanted to rest for a few days.
For several days, the two witnessed the free and debauched but impoverished life of the bohemian crowd, and they both admired and felt anxious, because freedom and wealth could not be combined.
They then traveled to Texas, where the attitude of the strict area was completely different, and the local police put them in jail for their strange behavior.
Luckily, they met Hansen, a lawyer who did everything in their power to help them escape from prison, so the two encouraged Hansen to join them on the road.
Tired of reality, Hansen could not resist the turmoil in his heart, and also wanted to feel the freedom of revelry, and Hansen agreed to move forward.
They come to a conservative town again, and the brash and uninhibited personalities of the three seem out of place with everything around them. The townspeople insulted the unwelcome hippies and drove them away with sticks.
They continued on their way, the scenery was beautiful along the way, but the surrounding area was lifeless, passing through the wilderness, and two farmers looked at the "social scum" riding the locomotive, but raised their guns.
The Meaning of Travel: The film lashs out at people who crave freedom but are hypocritical and numb, afraid to change themselves, but hate others who dare to break through themselves.
The pursuit of freedom comes at a price in an inappropriate age, and in this so-called "Beat Generation" of America, Billy and White are full of curiosity about the future.
The ending was helpless, but they were always smiling, not complicit, at least not betraying themselves.
They bravely escaped the numb life, pursued dreams and freedom, and pursued the meaning of life.
<h1>Born Killer</h1>
Natural Born Killers
Duration: 118 minutes
Highway Theme: Critique
Synopsis: Miki and his girlfriend, Melale, both grew up in a violent family environment and had tragic childhood experiences.
Unable to endure the painful reality, the two killed their long-violent parents and began a journey to the end of the world.
Seeing through this society, the two people who have not been loved since childhood rely on each other and begin to kill each other in a frenzy on the way to escape, and countless people have been killed.
They want to be like God, punish greedy human beings and take revenge on society.
This crazy couple kills people like them, people who speak ill of or have no respect for others. These people deserve to die, they are all selfish, narrow-minded and arrogant.
Their killings attracted media attention, television stations began to report and hype about their killings, and the two quickly became nationally renowned news figures and even idols for teenagers.
Despite this, they were caught by the police and put in jail.
In order to increase the ratings, the TV host actually went into the prison to conduct a live interview with them, so that the curious people knew about their situation in the prison, and the two hated all this and prepared to set off a killing in the prison.
The meaning of travel: Although it is full of blood and violence from beginning to end, what the screenwriter Quentin wants to express is criticism.
The silent killing of the two is a protest against reality, and this society sneers at the low-level people, so that these people do not feel warmth and happiness.
Big fun nagging
The advantage of watching a "road movie" is that you can enjoy the scenery while experiencing the exciting life of the protagonist. Knowing that you don't want to go out in the winter, just follow the movie and let the heart "wave" a wave first.
Have fun