Getaway / Empowering
| Steve McQueen and Ali
McGraw are the bank robbers that I love in this film. She’s gorgeous, and he drives a car, fast. I think it might be a Mustang, or maybe a Corvette. Or maybe I’m getting my films confused. They walk out in a hail of bullets. Now she’s his accomplice. She has the key and she gets in. There’s a little betrayal. Still, it’s heroic when they end up in Mexico. They get out of the old man’s truck. |
Terrible beginning. Something
bad broke. Made a terrible smoke. An engine, maybe, backfired. They listened to it stir and stir and stir. Now they are meeting over the counter. Now they are playing robbers. Who touched the muffler? Who killed the girl in the sunflower… dress? In the white lace? Hopper could never paint this well. Notice the mechanic’s hand, big as the sun’s reflection. |