- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Version:
- Review Format:
- DVD
- Year:
- 2001
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Thriller
- Director:
- Outstanding Performance:
- Premiss:
- Three young Whites on a road trip antagonize a trucker via their CB radio, then must run for their lives when he seeks vengeance.
- Themes:
- Alienation
- Christianity
Coming-of-age - Compassion
- Corporate Power
- Courage
- Curative
- Destiny
- Emotional repression
- Empathy
- Erotophobia
- Ethnicity
- Family
- Free Speech
- Friendship
- Gynophobia
- Humanity
- Identity
- Individualism
- Justice
- Loneliness
- Love
- Loyalty
- Mankind
- Materialism
- Narcissism
- Nationality
- Nostalgia
- Personal
- Personal change
- Political
- Political Correctness
- Preventive
- Redemption
- Republicanism
- Role modeling
- Sadomasochism
- Schizophrenia
- Sexism
- Sexual Repression
- Snobbery
- Solipsism
- Stereotyping
- Totalitarianism
- White culture
- White guilt
- White Privilege
- White supremacy
- Similar to:
- Duel
Pandora’s Box
Caucasians Hold Grudges Forever Because they Have no Other Emotional Outlet
T
hese kinds of stories work well in White culture and, so, are an accurate reflection of the problems that Whites, and those who wish to be accepted by them, possess. The violence inherent in such a culture is well to the fore here - as is the response to it; a cycle of violence with no end in sight.
Whites are so obsessed with hiding their emotions from others - and themselves - that even among their friends they are required to conceal what they really feel or be mocked for being too much like the
Emotional repression is, ultimately, the basis of the story here as we witness Whites mocking each other for being both repressed and for being
Mocking others is an activity undertaken by those who have no real, inner, emotional life
Like all the best thrillers, a strong vein of humor runs through this and helps both to underscore the action and to
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