Go to the End

Reason for making the list: The movie Go to the End was a terrible box office.

Classic index: ★★

Foreign road movies started in the 196s, 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. In 21, a movie "Go to the End" can already represent the whole of China's road movies, because so far, there is only one road movie in China. Foreign road movies started with strong experiments and heavy connotations. Later, foreign road movies were mostly inheritors, which always incorporated many thoughts about society and life. However, China's road movies started as commercial movies, which was less obscure and more relaxed.

Plot:

Xiao Wang, the driver, thinks that people make a living by delivering cars, and repeats a monotonous life on strange roads all day long, but Molly, a girl who hitchhiked, breaks the program of life. Molly took Xiao Wang's car to see her boyfriend Adong, but they witnessed a black robbery with Adong, and the two were inexplicably involved and became Adong's hostages. The unwilling underworld is bound to get back the treasure, and the police can't just sit back and watch, and a chase will inevitably start. Since "Go to the End" is a commercial film with my sister's connotation, the box office is a big criterion to judge him. Unfortunately, the box office of this film was defeated. Supposedly, the propaganda of this film is not weak, and the concept of road film is repeatedly hyped, with Karen Mok, Jiang Wu and Zhang Zhenyue as the main stars, but unfortunately the audience does not buy it. Obviously, a commercial road movie can be successful not only by accumulating jokes, but also by love, violence, police, beautiful scenery and moving music. The only road movie in China begins with a comedy and ends with a tragedy. To paraphrase a line from the film: We have gone to the end and need to start again.

Don't turn around

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

Classic index: ★★★ ★

Plot:

An obvious traffic symbol on the poster of the movie "Don't turn around" seems to tell people that this is a road film. Yes, this is a standard road movie, but what it brings to the audience is a sinister and almost crazy story that other road movies don't have. Bobby, who was unlucky, owed a huge sum of money in Vegas, so he wanted to run away, leave all the mess behind and start his life again. However, his car unfortunately broke down in a desolate town in Arizona. The residents in the town were all freaks. What was originally a chic trip to the world turned into a thrilling abnormal game. He just wants to escape from the town, but since he entered the town, he has already been doomed to a journey that cannot be turned around. Bobby was seduced by Grace, the most mysterious beauty in the town, and when they were entangled, Grace's husband Jack ran into him. Unexpectedly, Jack paid Bobby to kill his wife to get insurance money. Embarrassed Bobby decided to take the job in the face of the temptation of money. Just as he was about to do it, Grace put forward a counter-plan, asking Bobby to kill Jack and then take the property and fly away with her. However, this is far from the end of the story, and even weirder things have not yet arrived.

the three escaped kings

reasons for making the list: the road version of Homer's epic

classic index: ★★★★☆

plot

The background of the three escaped kings is 193s. This is a prison on the Mississippi River. The prisoners are working hard. One day, three of them escaped from prison! This is Alfred, Peter and Delma. Alfred used to be a lawyer, and his eloquence was excellent. It was his glib tongue that invited these two followers. The three people's destination was Alfred's cabin by the Mississippi River, because he said he had hidden a treasure worth $1.2 million there. However, they only have four days, because after four days, the place where the cabin is located will be washed into a Wang Yang by the hydropower company. For this great task, three convicts, who are full of comedy, started their escape journey in a staggered way ... This film is full of ancient Athenian mythology, and the experiences of the three men in their journey are closely linked with mythical figures and legends. First, the three men met a sea witch who lured travelers with songs, and three people who couldn't help themselves were taken in, so Pete disappeared. As for the mythical cyclops, the one-eyed giant is the fierce one-eyed missionary. He pretended to make friends with them and robbed them, but in the end the gods of Olympus finally took care of them. This film may not be a road film in the traditional sense, because the protagonists are traveling in a baroque strange world. If a road and a journey really have a final point, then whether it is a Mercedes-Benz motorcycle or a barefoot walk, the place we finally arrive at should be our spiritual home. The end of the story is also quite mythical, and the protagonists are finally happily rushed to their yearning places by the hydropower company. Everything began to change and life became better.

The Eighth Day

Reason for making the list: The road of life is closely related to perseverance, has something to do with emotional intelligence, and has nothing to do with IQ

Classic index: ★★★★★ ★

Plot

At the beginning of the film The Eighth Day, people 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 at home in his career, but separated from his wife in life. Like most such films, Harry was afraid to avoid George at first. But slowly, the seemingly mentally sound side was changed by the seemingly mentally retarded side and began to understand life again.

This film is different from other films with similar themes in that the audience will feel like a butterfly in Zhouzhuang. Who is abnormal between Harry and George? Generally speaking, one side of the majority is normal, but is one side of the majority correct? Are there any happy people? Did we buy the bamboo slips and return the pearls? Is it the opposite direction?

The Killer in California

Reason for being on the list: Typical variation after the combination of a road film and a crime film

Classic index: ★★★★ ★

Plot

The Killer in California tells the story of a writer who made a field trip to follow the killer's footsteps with his photographer's wife for his serial killer novel, but in order to share the high expenses on the road, he had to pull a pair of descriptions. But since then, I have embarked on a dangerous journey of narrow escape. The film doesn't portray the writer and characters played by david duchovny very hard, but it may be because the images of the killer Ollie and his girlfriend Ai Dai are too full. Ollie is vulgar, aggressive and manic, and is a representative of extreme evil. Although Adai is intellectually inferior, there is a foolish kindness in her heart. She has always cherished the friendship with Carrie and looked forward to living together in a big house in California. Poor, she fell in love with Ollie only because he has the "most charming" eyes in the world and won't beat her up most of the time. And Ollie doesn't really love her. All he needs is a girl in a tropical dress, because it looks more like a pair of dew-dew mandarin ducks. As a road film, California Killer obviously lacks many cultural symbolic meanings. But the performances of Blatter Peter and Juliet Lewis attracted almost all our attention. Moreover, the director cleverly made California a virtual paradise similar to the ultimate, which made the film have the meaning of pursuing dreams. As for the killer's motive, the film is only the tip of the iceberg. A painful childhood experience? A real nightmare that can't be waved away? These questions all became looming in the end.

The Demon in the Desert

Reason for being on the list: The first film that brought transvestites and homosexuals to the screen after the genre theme was released in the 199s

Classic index: ★★★★ ★

Plot

The story hero of The Demon in the Desert includes a transgender and two homosexuals. The three of them cross the desert by bus and dress like macaws. Use a poem by Bai Hua to describe them: "This dazzling white love, this dazzling white summer, this dazzling white neuropathy!" On the whole, except for some unpleasant experiences in the two small towns where we stayed-a bar in A town was met with a vicious provocation by an overbearing fat woman, the next morning, we found that the bus body was painted with cursing and insulting words, and in B town, we were almost raped by a group of local ruffians, and the bus broke down in the desert, so we finally met rescuers passing by, dressed in colorful makeup and clothes, but others were scared to step on the gas pedal and run away. And the three people seem to have found some other meanings in life during these three days and two nights' journey. The film is excellent in 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 portrays 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 towards the outside world. The three protagonists are veteran character actor terence stamp, famous Hugo Weaving and young actor guy pearse. The performance was excellent. Those exaggerated and funny costumes and dancing in ABBA music were an eye-opener, and the shabby bus named "Desert Demon" became the most enchanting and arrogant symbol in road movies.

Grand Central Station

Reason for making the list: the warmest film

Classic index: ★★★★

Plot

Dora in Grand Central Station is a bad old lady who swindles money under the guise of writing and sending letters for people at Grand Central Station. So such a trip also has a spiritual baptism for her. From selling Joshua viciously at first, to rescuing him with compassion; I want to abandon Joshua halfway and slip away alone, and finally I have a kinship with Joshua. Dora's inner goodness was aroused a little in the process. Especially after meeting the kind driver on the way, she even had a love affair with him.

The Story of Strede

Reason for making the list: the most stubborn film

Classic index: ★★★ ★

Plot

The Story of Strede, a road movie with a lawn mower as its means of transportation, is based on a true story that happened in the United States before 1994. 73-year-old Strede is in poor health. He has to walk with crutches, but he has a stubborn personality without a driver's license. In order to visit his brother who had not seen him for more than ten years and had a sudden stroke, he drove an old lawn mower from Iowa to Wisconsin in 1966, staggering 3 miles on the central and western plains at a speed of 15 miles per hour. Like many road movies, Strede met many people along the way: a pregnant runaway girl, 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 implications for strangers, and he also gets some inspiration. Lynch, whose style has always been erratic and strange, 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, Aihehuatianye stretches like a wave under the sunset. Under the golden sunset, an old lawn mower slowly chugs and moves on the narrow road winding away in the distance, which makes people feel like spring breeze, and moves forward with the firm will of the old man Strede ... The soft piano and crisp guitar chords in the film soundtrack are interlaced, and the old man's eyes are clear, determined and flashing with a kind light. The performance of 79-year-old actor richard farnsworth is very moving and moving. The stop-motion scene at the end of the film, full of stars, turns a thousand words into silence, which makes people feel melancholy and sad.

29 palm trees

Reason for making the list: the most destructive film

Classic index: ★★★★

Plot

29 palm trees are the name of a small town in the film and the destination of the two protagonists' trip. Judging from its name, it is obviously utopian. Because in such a tropical desert, there is probably no palm tree that grows in a humid climate. Indeed, until the end of the film, the town did not appear. David and Garcia escaped from the noisy city, but they also couldn't avoid people from that world, and finally they died together in this scorching desert. There seems to be no consistent background of the road film and the characters' own situation here. Although the photographer's protagonist is also on the road for inspiration, what we see is more about the wrestling between the two lovers. They are always in a changeable mood, arguing or ecstatic about a little thing, but they all end up in a surging sex. And their expression of love is closer to this rough and thirsty regional temperament. The director didn't directly explain one thing, but he used a metaphorical way. It is the hero's fear of the city and his own identity. Garcia was kicked out of the house by David, and a person hid aimlessly in the street. And David's final destruction also comes from the last 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 the copulation of the two lovers everywhere, or in hotels, or in roadside open-air swimming pools, or even on a warm rock. But halfway through, they once felt lonely, but the car that passed by by by accident made them feel that there were others like themselves. But the truth is that they may be harmed by fellow travelers at any time. This is a paradox.

Motorcycle Diary

Reason for being on the list: the deepest film

Classic Index: ★★★★

Plot

Motorcycle Diary is a celebrity biography with a road film as the carrier. The protagonist in the film is sure to be familiar to everyone, the famous Cuban revolutionary hero ernesto guevara. Through his journey through Latin America at the age of 23, the film not only reveals the various austerities of Latin American society in the 195s. The film didn't announce the existence of a hero as soon as it came up, but 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 energetic and dreamy young man, started out just to get on the road. The winding road in front of him seems to have endless interesting things waiting for them, with beautiful scenery along the way and enthusiastic girls from different regions.