is this movie supposed to help encourage feminism amongst women? are we not beyond the point already that women need a movie to tell them that they can be whatever they want to be?
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To me the story was more about the mother/son relationship then her being a truck driver.
shareIt builds the most on her relationships, particularly with her son and the two men who have sincerely cared for her, and how she's afraid to give any of them love or commitment in return. She's a woman who doesn't figure out how to or feel the urge to be a mother until she really has no alternative. She has chosen an unconventional lifestyle, thinking that independence and freedom was a worthy goal, but she was literally driving around in circles, running away from anyone who gets too close and that hardens her quite a bit, leaving her weary and confused. I think if there's a larger theme of the movie it's about how we all need some semblance of family and love in our lives, even those who are cut from a different cloth.
shareWow K street I could have not put it better myself!! that really sum up the film pretty well!
shareYour review is excellent, please review a few Diane Lane Movies like 'Unfaithful' in which the star of Trucker plays a friend of 'Connie Summer' in 'Unfaithful'.
shareI'm glad somebody enjoyed this. I didn't exactly hate it, but I'm kinda tired of these movies where a woman has sex with random strangers and looks bored out of her effing mind, or angry. I just saw Charlize Theron play more or less the same character in The Burning Plain.
Now, don't get me wrong. Women should be allowed to screw whoever they want, but why do they always have to look like they'd rather be doing something else? It's just stupid. I watched the first season of Saving Grace this past weekend and the thing I like about Holly Hunter's character is that she drinks and smokes and screws whoever she wants and if you don't like it then you can go eff yourself. That character actually ENJOYS having sex, which explains why she does it, despite being sexually abused as a child.
The character MM and CT play in Trucker and Burning Plain look like someone's holding a gun to their head while they're doing it. It's like seeing a crying forced to eat his brussel sprouts. Who wants to watch that?
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It builds the most on her relationships, particularly with her son and the two men who have sincerely cared for her, and how she's afraid to give any of them love or commitment in return. She's a woman who doesn't figure out how to or feel the urge to be a mother until she really has no alternative. She has chosen an unconventional lifestyle, thinking that independence and freedom was a worthy goal, but she was literally driving around in circles, running away from anyone who gets too close and that hardens her quite a bit, leaving her weary and confused. I think if there's a larger theme of the movie it's about how we all need some semblance of family and love in our lives, even those who are cut from a different cloth.