Review of Highway 61 (1991) by Melissa B — 03 Jun 2008
It's difficult to treat this film on its own merits, without comparison to Roadkill. It's less chaotic, and thus more approachable. The quest is more linear, and while it's still not about the quest, exactly, that changes things.
Setting much of the film in the US changes things too. It creates more of an us-vs-them dynamic. Jackie and Pokey are *threatened* where Ramona is mostly only baffled. Also, and this is perhaps a petty complaint, the cuts between shots of Ontario and shots of the American South for the same narrative locations are occasionally jarring.
None of which is to say that Roadkill is necessarily a better movie. Fans of one will probably like the other, and the question of preference is probably more a Rorschach test than anything else. But this one is more conventional.
This review of Highway 61 (1991) was written by Melissa B on 03 Jun 2008.
Highway 61 has generally received positive reviews.
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