The duration of road movies ranges between different trips, which may take a few hours, or weeks and months, and often accompanies the physical journey and the path that the hero crosses, another internal journey that revolves within him, exploring what is unknown to him in himself and in life, to show the transformation at him at the end of the journey.
These movies range from comic comedy to drama, whether it is simple road trips or intricate adventures in which great transformations take place. Films on the road remain one of the species that evokes the fun and thought of the recipient. Here is a selection of road movies, which you can watch if you are stuck at home and unable to travel.
Hardly famous
The movie "Almost famous" is inspired by a true story by its author and director Cameron Crowe, where he was writing for Rolling Stone magazine during his teenage age at 15, and he was looking for his own way in journalistic and critical writing, and was actually assigned to write an introductory press file for one of Rising rock bands.
Although the boy's mother worried that rock bands were linked to drugs, he struggled to follow the band, and went with them on one of their artistic tours.
During the journey the teenage boy explores himself and his ideas, as well as learn about the healing power of music, and the destructive power of lusts, a great journey for the little boy; To know, in the end, that safety and love are the most important feelings in a person’s life.
Double
While traveling through the desert to make an appointment with a client, businessman "David Man" passes in the movie "Duel" with a slow and old transport truck, which is rubbed by its leader, and because of this the mental leader is insulted and pursues David Mann along the highway trying to kill him.
Although the truck driver's face never appears, all his behavior confirms his psychological imbalance, the film cannot be described as a regular conspiracy and chase films, and it can be classified as psychological horror movies, especially with the director Stephen Spielberg's choice of the truck driver's face never to appear, so that the hero seems to be fighting the truck. The movie confirms this strange idea by drawing the camera movement positions and shooting angles, and the terrifying sound effects of the old truck's sound.
Joy ride
"Joy ride" is about 3 young men on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey, and they meet a deadly and crazy truck driver on the road, and the young Louis Thomas decides to go on a journey to meet his girlfriend. During the trip, he finds himself forced to save his brother, who was arrested on charges of drunkenness, and because of the brother who always prefers to joke around, everyone gets involved in a chase by the driver, who decides to kill them.
Usually on road movies, the scenes in the movie revolve around the back roads, dilapidated gas stations, and depend on the skill of assembling the strings together, eventually leading the director to a well-made bloody crime, with a little humorous sense.
A little sunshine
"Little miss sunshine" is about a young girl who wants to participate in the Miss Kids competition, and her family decides to travel with her 700 miles in a vintage Volkswagen, to bring her closer to her dream, and the film is classified within the family comedy films, but he Nevertheless, he carries a counter message to American institutions that trade the dreams of everyone, even children.
The film shows a bleak world, concerned with job titles and procedures, and career paths, to identify and sort every human passion or desire, and turn it into a way of profit and loss.
Wild strawberry
Dr. Isaac Borg, 78, travels during the movie "wild strawberries" on an honorary doctorate trip, accompanied by his son Marian's wife, who seems to dislike him and looks at him as a cruel and practical person, who cares only about himself and his scientific achievement .
During the trip, Borg stops at his family's summer home, where he spent his childhood, and remembers his past, youth and family, before deciding to isolate himself from relatives and friends for the sake of science and work.
With the help of his son-in-law, Borg explores his life again, reviewing his past choices that created him cold and devoid of the true meaning of value and love, and as Borg reaches the end of his journey he tries to correct his human mistakes, before dying at the end of the journey.
The film is one of the masterpieces of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, and it is one of the films that has a great impact on the viewer, and makes him wonder about the true meaning of life.