Thursday, 28 May 2015

Joy Ride

Also Known As:
Unknown
Version:
Language:
English language…
Length:
97 minutes
Review Format:
DVD
Year:
2001
Country:
United States…
Predominant Genre:
Thriller
Director:
John DAHL…
Outstanding Performance:
Steve ZAHN…
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

Summary: What happens when Whites believe that the emotions of others do not matter.

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 so-called lower races. This results in the inevitable political stereotyping that results in viewing people as members of social groups - rather than as individuals - since the latter becomes impossible when one eschews ones own emotions along with everybody else’s. Whites then act surprised when a backlash occurs - as here - and imagine a simple apology will suffice.

Emotional repression is, ultimately, the basis of the story here as we witness Whites mocking each other for being both repressed and for being emotionally-expressive - an oxymoronic worldview that can only lead to the mental illness and catastrophic emotional rage displayed here.

Mocking others is an activity undertaken by those who have no real, inner, emotional life and/or who are as immature as they are defensive. It does not fill the time, but merely passes it in the hope that the effort involved in taking responsibility for ones actions represents a time in ones life that will never occur.

Like all the best thrillers, a strong vein of humor runs through this and helps both to underscore the action and to necessarily-relieve some of the well-crafted suspense. The comedy helps compensate for the lack of a proper exploration of the moral can-of-worms the script begins to open in favor of eventual plot-heaviness; feeling a little unnatural in its eventual abandonment of character-development.


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Science:



No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.