8/10
Lost Highway
16 February 2015
Roaring car engines. Spinning Earth. A road at night. A car drives off straight into the darkness. Two cars next to each other get leveled. A race! Cars get checked by race organizers. Money gets exchanged. A man looks at us. Red light in his hand flashes up. Red dies, green is begotten. Engines start roaring again and now two cars drive into the darkness. Man in blue car tells us: "Watch the fight." Blue is our guy. Same game again. Leveling, red, green, roooar and vanish. Cut to the finish line. Blue arrives first. Red lights flashing in the dark in front of Blue. The other car drives on, Blue turns around, drives back. Red flashing lights chase Blue. Blue slows down to pick up friend. Off they go. Red flashing lights lose Blue.

Our man, Blue, The Driver...he's into driving. Not much else. Most of the rest he blocks out. Socially awkward. Except when it comes to setting up races. That he is interested in, so that he can do, motherf***er. Don't tell him how s***ty your life is, he doesn't want to hear about it. But GTO wants to tell him. GTO, a man who likes to talk. Doesn't matter who, anyone will do. A born bulls***ter.

A girl joins Blue. She can because she wants to. No questions asked. The friend and the girl make love, or what one calls "making love". The Driver stays out of it. The girl appears in GTO's car. They talk. She lures GTO into racing against the guys. Or with them. Now she helped The Driver to set up a cross country race, and they have a good talk about the s***ty life of bugs. The Driver and the girl end up...I don't know, making out for five minutes. The Driver now participates in a pointless road game. The girl on the backseat, witnessing the power game. A road accident brings it to a halt.

One time GTO is talking to The Driver he doesn't want to bulls***. Because GTO just watched how the car that he set up the big race with beat his vehicle in a little race. He used to think he could win the big race. He hoped he could. All the things he lost, all the things he tried. But the road life isn't his either. Now what else has he left to hang on to? Words. Just words. But they don't ground enough. And if he's not grounded pretty soon, he's gonna go into orbit.

The girl joins GTO. She can because she wants to. GTO is bulls***ting her about a future together. The girl isn't into it. They walk into a diner. Some boy who looks like the girl sees the two. The girl sees the boy. Meanwhile The Driver wants to find the girl, real bad. He does! The Driver proposes to her a future together. He's not bulls***ting. "No good", says the girl. The guy who looks like her leaves and gets onto his motorcycle. He waits. The girl follows. She can because she wants to. She has to leave behind much of her stuff because there's no space for it on the machine. She doesn't mind, it's just stuff. Three men left behind. They part. Whatever race there once was, it's over. GTO continues to pick up people. To talk to them. To bulls*** them. The Driver is game for his next race.
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