The longest goodbye
This movie is simply incredible. I don't know about the DVD version or how and why you could cut from it without heavily damaging the plot. The detective's cynicism can be crushingly funny at times, and I have had more laughs out of this movie than out of most comedy. And this movie is one of the saddest ones, I've seen at the same time.
It quotes Shakespeare in being able to employ comical relief right after a murder has happened. The only murder that makes you sad though is the one of the man, the heroine wanted to get married to. In the symbiotic relationship that develops between the two main characters there is no place for real harmony. It's a chase down to the end, which becomes more and more apparent through the course of the movie.
She reads Hamlet while living the tragedy herself. The main difference between tragedy and comedy is that in tragedies the main character dies, and in comedy, get's married. However, movies today try to be just one thing, they don't even attempt at being honest about the protagonist's emotions, be they strange and misleaden as they may. Movies today choke you with plot points and tearjerker's you cannot escape, but that are alltogether forgettable.
Deadly Run doesn't do that. It just takes you along on the weirdest journey with the only two characters that seem interesting and prolific enough to deserve your company. It's as beautiful as it is difficult to follow or understand. There is no truth, no witty conclusion. What we get in the end is simply what we knew the whole time: a father lost his little girl and never came to terms with it. A little girl lost her father and never came to terms with it. They are both lost and on the run, both just waiting for reality to catch up and make them face the facts.
Both of them lost their families and took bloody revenge on the rest of humanity or those they identify with their loss. They are both incredibly lonely and haunted and alienated from the rest of the world, who just all seem to have petty thoughts about money or sex. While the rest of the world just follows the rules, they make their own and watch their ship sink, as their story unfolds. There are no goodbyes in the end. No bitter tears and no despair. Death comes almost as a relief and whom it didn't reach in time the movie ended will just have to wait. As the detective does, until he - no doubt - picked up his own gun and entered the photograph himself.
The saddest and best movie I have ever laughed about! Wish there was anything equal to it!