deathpproof… structurally this reminded me of To the Lighthouse as described by Woolf (“two big rooms connected by a narrow passage” I think she wrote) which is this movie also, with the “narrow passage” being the scene of the sheriff in the hospital…
woman whose foot is licked by Mike later plants foot on Mike’s face, I think, a reverse of it… she is recovering from a night out (maybe the sort of night out the four/ five women in the first half perhaps experienced) — kicked up feet– no resolution to the character left with the man who loans out his car–
first half, women as portrayed in movies, vs. second half’s women as makers of movies[?] victims vs. heros — what does the idea of “stunts” add / stunt men and women — the billboards– Lake Lyndon B. Johnson — parallel conversations about not going all the way with boys– dodge challenger — lebanon, tenn—
the curious time of the movie: because it’s been shot like a movie in the sixties/ seventies one imagines the movie itself (the subject of movie) occurs in that era too –and there’s not much to dissuade one from thinking that– so that one is genuinely shocked to see something like a cell phone, or the mention of red bull …
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