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A remarkable movie!
Originality is the supreme adjective for this picture. It won deservedly the Academy Award as Original script. Ridley Scott made an authentical road movie but loaded with humor , cynicism , haunting and above all very anti macho movie.
The sinister fact that will turn a twist of fate in these two women who only wanted to have fun just for a while will become in a permanent and menacing nightmare for both of them .
The spectacular landscapes are a huge background all the way reminds us Paris Texas . The use of big lenses and the arresting images walks together with a solid script .
Brad Pitt appears briefly as the hitch hike guy who eventually seduces Thelma . Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis are the mirror images of Sundance Kid , you may consider it a speculation, but think it carefully . Since the accidental murder , and the sweet smell of the risk when Geena robes a supermarket , the dramatic car chase is very close in spirit to the sudamerican getaway and above all the ending sequence .
Keitel works efficiently , once more and Scott shows us once more why he's on the top direction .
Consider this one from its release as one of the most powerful nineties cult movies!

an often comedic tragedy of a film
A film by Ridley Scott

One thing that I have never understood is that "Thelma and Louise" has been marked as this huge feminist movie (which happens to be directed by a man) that is taking aim at men and shows them all as pigs. I don't get it. On one hand this is a comedy (a lot of things are funny in this movie). On another hand, "Thelma and Louise" is a western that has a car instead of a horse, and two women rather than two men. It is a buddy movie, and a road movie. Most importantly, this film is a tragedy (with all that a tragedy entails). I don't want to spoil the ending for anyone who has not yet seen the movie, but considering the journey that these women go on and how it concludes, I don't see how it can be viewed as this feminist male-bashing movie.

Thelma (Geena Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon) need a vacation away from their men. Louise just needs some time away from Jimmy (Michael Madsen) and Thelma is in a fairly miserable marriage where she is emotionally abused by her husband Darryl (Christopher McDonald). Thelma leaves without telling Darryl, which she believes will get her in trouble when she comes back. Thelma and Louise are off to a cabin owned by Louise's boss and they are going to have some fun (and for Thelma, this is a change). On the way to the cabin they stop at a roadside bar to have a couple of drinks and dance. Thelma dances with a guy who seems to be very sweet, but when she gets drunk he helps her outside and tries to rape her. Louise comes out in time to stop the rape, but ends up shooting and killing the man. Rather than go to the police, they go on the run not thinking that the police would believe their version of what happened (many witnesses would have seen Thelma and Harlan dancing cheek to cheek).

This begins what is really the heart of the movie: the women on the run. Some have said that having the two women end up on such a crime spree (from the murder to armed robbery) is glorifying the crimes and celebrating the women, but I disagree. We have to look at why Thelma and Louise did what they did and what happens to them because of those actions. There is no celebration here. Yes, there is release and a sense of freedom for the two women, but there is also resignation. They did their best to get out of a bad situation but they were never able to get their lives back on track and while Thelma is finally having "fun", she also says late in the movie that "something snapped inside me and I can never go back". This is tragedy.

Men do not come off as poorly in this movie as some critics have said. Yes, Harlan the rapist is a horrible man, and he got his just reward. Thelma is married to a real dirt bag of a man. J.D. (Brad Pitt) is a mixed character. He is smooth and charming, but ends up being a thief. Yet, he is still a likeable and mostly sympathetic character. To move to the other end of the spectrum, Louise's boyfriend Jimmy is an entirely positive male character. So is Hal (Harvey Keitel), the FBI agent who is trying to bring Thelma and Louise in alive and as easily as possible. He is trying to protect these women as well as apprehend them, but even Hal can see things spiraling out of control.

"Thelma and Louise" is a very good movie made by a talented cast of people. Geena Davis (The Accidental Tourist) and Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking) are both Oscar winners, and Ridley Scott is a three time nominee for Best Director (Thelma and Louise, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down). Callie Khouri's screenplay did win the Oscar for this movie, and both Davis and Sarandon were nominated for Best Actress in this film. There is a strong Oscar pedigree here and it shows in the movie. It is a well told story of two women who in their attempt to break free from their lives end up going too far and become fugitives. While there may be a celebratory feel to this movie, I believe that would be a misinterpretation of "Thelma and Louise". It is an often comedic tragedy and simply is an excellent movie from start to finish.

Ultimate Liberation: wonderful, memorable
The storyline is simple and maybe too unbelievable. Most of the male characters are stereotypes. But this movie is really about the psychological states of the two female leads and their road journey. And the movie does an absolutely terrific job portraying these and getting the message across, precisely.

Susan Sarandon is brilliant (though I think she does a somewhat even better job in "Dead Man Walking"), and Geena Davis is just fantastic. Davis delivers a performance so amazing that I like her as an actress and her as the character Thelma right away. Too bad that she's up against Jodie Foster in 1991's Oscar.

Harvey Keitel's character (a sympathetic cop) is a nice touch. He's there to tell us that Louise and Thelma are not merely some crazy, self-centered irresponsible women. He said in the last scene, "How many times has this woman (Louise) has gotta be fxxked over..."

Some may feel the ending is too sad, inappropriate or unnecessary. But I just love that ending. It sums up everything of the movie. Perhaps one shouldn't look at it as an unrealistic end of their lives; It's an end of their ADVENTURE. It's their LIBERATION. Just imagine how Louise and Thelma may feel when they make the final decision and what they may be thinking about moments before the end, holding each other's hand... oh, what the heck....

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