In the understanding that mobility and moving (whatever their motivations) are defining features of the human condition, moving stories occupy a very important place in literary traditions around the world.
The road movie, or the so-called road movies neighborhoods, are the a film genre whose argument develops throughout a trip.
Inheritors of the literary tradition of the trip that goes back to the Odisea Homeric, road movies combine the metaphor of the trip as development of the character with culture of individual mobility United States and West opulent after the Second World War, when owning a car was part of the signs of adult identity.
In a more general view, the road movies tend to an episodic structure, in which each segment of the narrative confronts the protagonists with a challenge, the fulfillment of which reveals part of the plot
Road films have been a staple of American movies since the beginning and have ranged in genres ranging from westerns, comedies, gangster/crime flicks, dramas, and action-adventure films.
However, it has one thing in common: it is an episodic journey or quest on the open road (or undiscovered trail), to seek escape or to participate in a search for some kind of goal: either a different destination , or the achievement of love, freedom, mobility, redemption, finding or rediscovery of oneself, or coming of age (psychologically or spiritually).
The road often functioned as a testing ground for the main characters, and so it is the journey that reveals to the hero something about himself, and not about where he has arrived.
With this in mind, we present to you four unmissable titles in this genre.
Paris Texas, Wim Wenders
The pioneer of the new German cinema Wim Wenders (Wings of desire) brings his keen eye to the landscape southwest of United States en París, Texas, a deeply moving character study written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard.
Paris, Texas follows the mysterious and nearly mute drifter Travis, whose face is a landscape unto itself, as he tries to reconnect with his young son, who lives with his brother in Los Angeles, and his missing wife.
From this simple montage, Wenders and Shepard produce a powerful statement about the codes of masculinity and the myth of the American family, as well as an exquisite visual exploration of a vast and crumbling world of cannonballs and neon.
Thelma and Louise, Ridley Scott
two women, one Thunderbird Turquoise, and the trip of a lifetime.
With this milestone in pop culture, the screenwriter Callie khouri and the author of action Ridley Scott rewrote the rules of the road movies telling the story of two best friends who become accidental runaways during a weekend getaway gone wrong, leading them on a grand adventure.
Their odyssey is fascinating as they elude the police, discover freedom on their own terms, and enjoy a Brad Pitt very young.
Fueled by the irresistible performances of Susan Sarandon y Geena Davis the film was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning one for Khouri.
The thrillingly cathartic Thelma & Louise stands as cinema's ultimate ode to ride or die trying while extolling one of the most iconic female friendships of all time.
La Strada, Federico Fellini
With this revolutionary film, Federico Fellini he launched himself and his wife and collaborator Giulietta Masina to international stardom, breaking with the neorealism of his early career in favor of a personal and poetic vision of life as a bittersweet carnival.
The endlessly expressive Masina registers both childish wonder and heartbreaking despair as Jasmine, faithful companion of the strong traveler zampano, whose callousness and brutality gradually wear down his gentle spirit.
Winner of the first Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, La Strada it has the purity and timeless resonance of a fable and remains one of the most exquisitely moving cinematic visions of humanity struggling to survive in the face of life's cruelties.
Lost Highway, David Lynch
A fascinating meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, Lost Highway, the seventh feature film of David Lynch, is one of the filmmaker's most powerful cinematographic dreamscapes.
Starring Patricia Arquette y Bill pullman, the film expands the horizons of the medium, taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and unknowable.
as this Black postmodern drifts into the realm of science fiction, it becomes apparent that the only certainty of function is uncertainty.