Cast: Sam Riley as Sal Paradise, Garet hedlund as Dean Moriarty, Kristian Stewart as Marylou, Amy Adams as Jane, Tom Sturridge as Carlo Marx, Alice Braga as Terry, Elisabeth Moss as Galatea Dunkel, Danny Morgan as Ed Dunkle, Kirsten Dunst as Camille, Viggo Mortensen as Old Bull Lee.
This is a drama/comedy/adventure set in the late 1940s early 1950s and is about a group of friends driving here and there around the United States trying to experience life and achieve other goals. Starting out in New York Sal and his friend Marx are both writers who meet this really exciting guy Dean. They both take fond of Dean’s fun and wild lifestyle and choose to hang around him and learn from him so that they can find inspiration to write.
One of the first things that bugged me about this one is how phony their clothes and things looked for the time this movie was trying to portray. They where so fake and unrealistic that it looked like they pulled these clothes and their other items right out of their own rooms themselves. There was really nothing old fashion about this film except for the cars a few bill boards and a black and white television. Well I guess the music too but even that sounded cheap.
It took me a while to figure out the plot behind this story and even now when thinking about it I can’t really say there was much of one at all besides Sal trying to find inspiration for his writing. Other than that, up until the end of the movie I honestly just thought this movie was about these young adults just being bums cruising from one place to stay to the next as they lived life acting wilder than hell traveling the country.
This movie truly did have it all though from steeling to cheating. You couldn’t find a seen where they weren’t smoking something. It would even make a fun drinking game if you had to drink every time some one smoked a cigarette or dubbie. No matter what they are doing or where they are going they are always drinking, smoking weed, or doing some of form of drug, and when they are not doing drugs they are screwing each other. He is screwing her, she is screwing him and them, He is screwing him and her at the same time, all the way to having orgies. Dean and Marylou are two of the same as they are both the biggest slut and man whore in the movie.
Probably my favorite part about this movie was the cast. Sal reminds me of a Leonardo Dicaprio look alike which was quite amusing. There were a bunch of surprise characters played by well known actors that pop up here and there throughout the film. Some of them even give slight references to their past characters they played in other movies, which I thought was clever.
This movie was long, but not boring, I did think there was a little to much of them driving around in the car, as probably half the scenes where shot in a car. But they do cover a lot of territory and there are many beautiful views of country side and old buildings and just that real type of stuff you would actually see on the road. With all that Said Im giving the movie a Six and a Half out of Ten.
Rating: 6.5/10
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