Never about the destination, road trips are all about the journey. The three works below feature characters that journey within, despite the scenery that surrounds them.
The theme song for this threaded works is Charlene's "I've Never Been to Me."
"The Trip to Spain"
"Sing, Unburied, Sing"
"Wild Strawberries"
The theme song for this threaded works is Charlene's "I've Never Been to Me."
"The Trip to Spain"
- Destination: From UK to Spain
- Journey: What fatherhood means
- Other Notes: In some ways, they succeeded in making a Don Quixote movie, to Terry Gilliam's envy I wager.
- Destination: From Bois Savage to Parchman Farm Penitentiary in Mississippi
- Journey: Meeting ghosts of family's past
- Other Notes: Borrows from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" and paints a vivid canvas of the modern South.
"Wild Strawberries"
- Destination: From Stockholm to Lund
- Journey: A man's life
- Other Notes: In honor of the Bergman centennial, I began an informal retrospective with this masterpiece. Watching it led me to a journey down memory lane: It is the inspiration for Woody Allen's "Deconstructing Harry" - a movie I watched with my youngest brother as part of his homework when he read "The Catcher in the Rye."
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The Trip to Spain
(2017, dir. Michael Winterbottom)
Rob and Steve go to
Spain. Quixotic, fatherhood
Themes along the way.
Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017)
by Jesmyn Ward
Ghosts travel with clan.
Past is prison. Violence
Can be merciful.
Wild Strawberries
(1957, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Borg journeys to get
Honor. Choose what to carry
On the road of life.
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