There is a purity to "Two-Lane Blacktop" that grabs you like fat tires gripping a hot asphalt road. On the surface it is seemingly the barest of trifles, a drag-racing movie in which the two main characters literally have no existential identity beyond their roles as Driver and Mechanic — the only names ever given them, and only then in the end credits.
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
There is a purity to "Two-Lane Blacktop" that grabs you like fat tires gripping a hot asphalt road. On the surface it is seemingly the barest of trifles, a drag-racing movie in which the two main characters literally have no existential identity beyond their roles as Driver and Mechanic — the only names ever given them, and only then in the end credits.