"Dated, cold and not very involving", somebody else wrote on here. While that's all true it doesn't necessarily make this movie uninteresting. I chuckled a lot over the deadpan characters, their quiet desperation and emotional inarticulacy (think "Manchester By the Sea"). Nobody does smalltalk, everybody cuts to the chase even if they don't always get a straight answer. "The Girl" climbs into the back of the guys' car one day when they stop for a soda and they come back acting like it's an everyday occurrence, hey maybe it was in the late 60s when hitchhiking was routine? (Slightly reminiscent of the later American Graffiti in which a young Harrison Ford gets stuck with an annoying teenage girl passenger.) But it sets the tone for the rest of the movie, in which bizarre events are normalised and all the characters (except perhaps bourgeois GTO driver Warren Oates) are supremely chilled. Great landscapes and fascinating vintage Americana, a lot to savour besides the arguably second-rate acting and scripting.
Review of Two-Lane Blacktop
