Review of On the Road (2012) by Bradley A — 14 Oct 2013
I don't understand how a movie with so much jazz on the soundtrack, so many trips in cars, so much Benzedrine being consumed, could be so...inert. Speaking of Benzedrine: why the film had no problem showing its use on multiple occasions, but left it out of the conditions under which Kerouac wrote the book, is a mystery.
The film is an odd mishmash of novel and historical record and commentary on that record. It's timid and too eager to please. Geniuses they may have been, but they were often selfish, self-serving, misogynists using the pursuit of art and experience as an excuse for bad behavior.
The movie shows some of that in a way that I do not recall the novel doing. Which is say, the the filmmakers didn't trust the viewer to come to these conclusions on our own, but I had to spell it out for us like we are tiny little babies intellectually.
This review of On the Road (2012) was written by Bradley A on 14 Oct 2013.
On the Road has generally received mixed reviews.
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