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The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Thelma And Louise3 And A Half Out Of 5Thelma And Louise is a character driven feature about an adventure gone wrong that eventually is undeniably right. The chemistry among the lead characters might be and is the heart of the feature but its the rest of the part that gives it an appropriate kick to punch it on the correct lane. It may be short on technical aspects like background score and art design, but has an amazing cinematography and perfect editing on its favor.As mentioned, the camera work is beautiful with amazing visuals and places where it is shot, that makes it immensely pleasing to encounter and demands attention through it. The script by Callie Khouri is smart, adaptive, gripping and thought-provoking where it may not allow the audience to work for it as the most of the past is served beforehand, but still keeps them tangled and engaged in it. Ridley Scott; the director, delivers his expected magic on screen and he is on his A game in here, withholding the viewers frame-to-frame. The performance objective is scored majestically by the lead actors Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon in their parallel role and is supported decently by Harvey Keitel and Brad Pitt. Thelma And Louise breeds an essential and irrevocable fatal decision that actually is way ahead of its time and equally accurate too.

Somebody said get a life so they did. "They" refer to 90's icons Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis) and Louise Sawyer (Suran Sarandon), an aging waitress and a 'desperate housewife' before a series would turn the term into some cocktail-drinking gossipy upper-class girls.They get a life indeed but what the tag-line doesn't say is that they get death too. But what an extra after the two-day ride they had, many people live without actually living, these two women pushed the notion of being free to its most extreme form, and when they decide to take the big jump, we're taken by many contradicting sentiments but one of them isn't disbelief because Sarandon and Davis gave life to two extraordinary persons who found themselves. I never really got why the American Film Institute nominated them in the Top 50 heroes' list, but a last viewing convinced me, the final sacrifice sealed their status as cinematic icons.But aside from the existential aspect of the film which, like the best road movies, focuses on the journey rather than the destination, there's the performances. Lesser acting, more clichés or directing à la pseudo-rebellious 2010's way would have ruined the film. Indeed, if there's anything "Thelma and Louise" exemplifies is how low feminism has sunk today by making everything a matter of "being like men" well this is exactly what Ridley Scott's film is not (but he's a man, so what does he know?) The fashion of gender-oriented movies today is to prove that women are as much capable of men but thankfully we don't need a female cop or a female truck driver for the film, we have pretty well-established archetypes, only this time, they're explored from a female standpoint.The waitress isn't just here to cheer up the depressed visitors, she gives her personal insights about the rapist and her lack of surprise that he ended up being shot reveals how much of human nature she knows. Now, a word about the rapist, at first he's your usual womanizer and Thelma is obviously responsive to his charm, but we're not fooled, it's not his talk but the fact that he seemed to care for her, to be sensitive. Thelma left her door wide open so when she was caught in the trap, it was too late, he couldn't believe a woman who gave herself so easily was suddenly playing 'hard to get', that's why he was totally deaf to her cries and pleas until Louise's gun made him come to his senses. Still; why would he sign his own death warrant by letting these last words slip off his mouth.That's the key, he didn't anticipate a reaction. This is a man who had such a low perception of women that in no way he felt endangered, and that was Louise's epiphany. Obviously, raping is the most cowardly and bestial way to assert male power, in the physical way, Louise knew that and saw her friend in state of helplessness, if even the gun didn't insert some sense in his mind, then he would do the same thing again. So she killed him and she didn't feel happy about it. This is the hit-or-miss moment of the film but it works because Sarandon puts so much truth in her acting that you can almost feel some intern brainstorm at that very moment. Was she right or not? Never mind, she did what he expected the least, and involuntarily setting the pattern for the next moves.This is what the ending is about too, this is what everything is about: unpredictability, it starts with two women going fishing, then they must flee to Mexico, then circumstances force them to derail their road, a young Brad Pitt also manages to lure naive Thelma in his net and steal the money, forcing them to rely on a robbery, and then the encounter with a young cop makes them commit an irreparable offense and force them to leave a state and blow their cover. But these scenes aren't just time fillers, they allow one character to finally blossom: Thelma stops being that naive Southern housewife who falls for the first schmuck to a natural gun-wielder and a crazy confident girl who neutralizes the ultimate macho symbol, a cop, and makes him weep like a ballerina.I don't feel like polluting this review by mentioning the recent "Ghostbusters" movie but the equivalent of a "Thelma and Louise" today would show female truck drivers acting the same toward men instead of women giving a lesson of decency, we wouldn't have comprehensive men like Louise's boyfriend played by Michael Madsen or the cop played by Harvey Keitel, all the guys would've been as rude as Thelma's husband (Christopher McDonald) wimpy as the cop or disgusting like the truck driver, and Louise would be a lesbian, nothing wrong with that of course, but the point is to show that they had nothing against men in the first place. But that today's audience consider a film like "Ghostbusters" feminist is an insult to real feminism, like "Thelma and Louise", a film that doesn't say that women are "little things" but that it's the way men look at them and it's up to them to make a difference by acting "big" which doesn't mean, acting like "men".It's one extreme case of course but a real staple on empowering movies, an instant classic that was parodied a few years after its release in "The Simpsons" or "Wayne's World", that's the mark of iconic movies. When I was kid, I stopped watching it after an hour because the ad on TV made me believe it was a fun movie, it just got too dark after the rape, the killing and the robbery it took me some time to re-watch it, but I think I always knew there was something special about this film.

I saw this film at the cinema in 1991, I remember how much I enjoyed it, the great cinematography by R. Scott, the witty and insightful script, and the nearly perfect interpretations of Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon and every other actor/actress on it. I am not one of those who like to re-watch films, instead I prefer to see any new or old previously unseen film. So when I sat in front of the TV this August and started zapping my intention was to check what was on in Sundance Channel, but then I came across Thelma & Louise, and lazily decided to put down the remote. I cannot describe the emotion I felt as I recalled with unexpected precision scene after scene what was going to happen, some exact script lines and even the particular mood and gestures of the actors before they executed some of the scenes. It was then that I realized that film had had an impact on me, few times I have enjoyed that much in a theater, and recently on the TV. The film has not aged just a bit, it is as fresh and delightful as it was 25 years ago; the world has changed quite a lot since then, the humour/drama of the film has not. Thelma & Louise has something to it that makes it a classic, it now belongs to cinema history, and it will become (if this has not happened yet) a cult film reflecting an epoch. There has never been another Thelma & Louise, and there will never be, it seems nobody has even tried to do it, maybe the daring story it tells and the wonderfully crafted way it is told are too challenging to attempt something similar nowadays, and we should be glad for it.

I don't quite know what it is about this film.This film is really, really good. it is a plethora of emotion, from jovial to gloomy, it has it all. I began to watch this film with the worst intentions. however was utterly surprised.I loved the character development of Thelma and Louise. and even the side characters of Madsen, Keitel and Pitt were all fantastic too. they all felt human and showed true raw human emotion. This film oddly reminds me of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" because of its great ability to make you feel happy and sad, there are very few films that can do this for me, and when it does it makes the happy bits better and the sad times sadder.This film may not look it, but it is great.