Movie of the Year: 1991 – Thelma and Louise
Movie of the Year: 1991
Thelma and Louise
Will Thelma and Louise shoot and drive its way to our 1991 Movie of the Year?
Ridley Scott’s Thelma and Louise has a tough act to follow in last week’s A Brighter Summer Day. And, stylistically, the two movies couldn’t be more different, but in many ways Thelma and Louise tackles much of the same subject matter: male dominance of women, male violence against women, and an air of systemic disinterest—if not out right antagonism—to the plight of women in general. All while wrapping up in just over 2 hours, but I digregs.
In this film we see the title characters set out on a road trip that immediately turns into a nightmare, thanks to—you guessed it—dudes. Dudes, bros, jerks, derps, scrubs, and f-boys fly at these two women like bugs through the night air. But, unlike those bugs which harmlessly splatter uponst their windshield, these dudes ruin everything and then come back to make sure they finished ruining everything and THEN force our main characters—played perfectly by Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis—off a literal freaking cliff. Go to heck, dudes, go straight to heck!
Nineteen and ninety-one. It was a magical time full of promise and wonder and we have to go back. However, we cannot. We can only move forward. Because we are podcasters, and bravely moving into the future is all we know how to do. All of that, and somehow more, on an all-new Movie of the Year!
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