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Thelma & Louise (1991)

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From Time Out Film Guide

Leaving her husband a meal in the microwave, Thelma (Davis) sets off with her friend Louise (Sarandon) for a weekend holiday. But at their first stop, Thelma is nearly raped outside a bar; Louise shoots and kills the man. Gone is the carefree mood, and their destination is now Mexico. Along the way, the pistol-packing fugitives become ever bolder, robbing a convenience store, shooting up a leering driver's truck, and locking a cop in his car boot. Directing with blistering energy, Scott delivers the goods, while Sarandon and Davis, together with sympathetic cop Keitel, are acutely convincing throughout the deepening chaos. Callie Khouri's script is nevertheless simplistic in the way it reduces many of the men to stereotypes, while the women gain strength less through self-knowledge than through the American gun laws. Ultimately, this road movie calls on too many knee-jerk reactions: its shocking and funny scenes rely squarely on role reversals within a traditionally male genre.

Author: CM

Time Out Film Guide

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John Cooper said...

Posted on Jul 16 2011 13:35 Beber's review of the film is a non-review based on a humourless , poorly written attempt to be vindictive. Thelma and Louise is seriously flawed film, . . .plus here's a fact to chew on . .. One of of every
4 lap-dancers` has a university degree. .Beber's claim to be a `thinker, on the evidence of this review, is unconvincing. .On this literary showing. . I consider Hugh Hefner to be more of a philosopher . ..

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Brendan said...

Posted on Mar 18 2011 19:48 "Thelma and Louise" is to gender as "Birth of a Nation" is to race. "Thelma and Louise" reflects the zeitgeist of a time when the mainstream media treated Marxist femininsts like Catharine A. MacKinnon as unbiased experts on male sexuality and celebrated the infamous Lorena Bobbit as something of a folk hero worthy of emulation.

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Beber said...

Posted on Mar 13 2011 05:08 This review is lopsided and fails to see the larger context. Ultimately, the reviewer is saying:
"Oink Oink"...
in so many pseudo-reviewer's limited "vocabulary of the film neophytes" words. Undoubtedly, he's editing the Lapdancer's Quarterly fulltime while doing this part-time.
Terrific film even for us males. The ones who can think, that is! Not the oinks...

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Andy S said...

Posted on Nov 13 2008 18:09 One of the best movies of the early nineties. A sublime film of friendship, circumstance, role and action. Lovely soundtrack too, and the ending's a blinder! Even Pitt is great, and leads an excellent supporting cast including Michael Madsen. A must see.

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John Cooper said...

Posted on Sep 14 2008 23:56 For once, a Time Out review has delivered a fair,
balanced review. Thelma and Louise has been
overrated critically. Basically it's a film about an older
woman manipulating a younger prettier one . . . so
this explains why the feminists liked it. ... that is, the
intellectual ones .. . the less intellectual ones liked it
on account of Brad Pitt's six pack .. . . . . . Yes . . . the script is
simplistic and nearly all the male characters are stereotypes. Sorry, ladies, but getting drunk, driving
dangerously, and shooting unarmed civilians is not the
way forward for the modern woman. I refer you to my own creative endeavour . . The Education of a Lap-dancer . .which is opening soon.

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