Fastest man alive?


I watched about 15 minutes of this and just quit. Neal was known as the fastest man alive and Donovan Tate is just a snooze, or, at least, he was directed as such. By all accounts, he was a ball of energy, whether raving with Kerouac, The Pranksters, reciting pages of Joyce or Proust, or working his job on the railroad. Or even just driving through a city at 50mph without wrecking (or explaining to a judge how he managed to incur a couple of dozen moving violations in a very short period of time). Where's the magnetic personality, the 5 conversations at once? His art was his life and in this context it seems more like still life than action painting. I never met the guy, but read many accounts of his ability to see around corners, and live in the moment. The guy portrayed here just seems introspective and somewhat morose. No one who sees this as their first interaction with Casady would get any idea of what he meant to so many. Maybe I'll fast forward in the movie and see if it gets better.

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