I'm glad I stayed with this quirky movie till the end.
Linas has an affair with a married woman, she dumps him, he gets kicked out of his friends' apartment, so he leaves Seattle and heads to his childhood home in Boston to regroup, in an old modified VW van he found abandoned at a llama farm. Reviews said the film was, "lyrical...comedic," but to me the first half was strange and boring. Linas has a van so why is he renting rooms for the night? His dad asks him where is he? and Linas said, "MT...WI, I mean WY." ?? This schlub opened his van door to a complete stranger cuz the stranger wanted to sleep in his van. And then they became best friends. ?
We root for our hero to make it cross country before his charismatic van - old / rusty / chopped to make shorter / slanted / dented / sputtering, goes belly up. The van was a metaphor about life being imperfect, but through persistence and hopefulness, we gain acceptance and open ourselves to other experiences. The van was a symbol of love, sadness and anger that everyone can relate to. The journey represented healing. Debuted at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in a category for innovative, original, independent and low-and-no-budget. Spoiler - the van makes it. Instrumental score - 👍,
Linas has an affair with a married woman, she dumps him, he gets kicked out of his friends' apartment, so he leaves Seattle and heads to his childhood home in Boston to regroup, in an old modified VW van he found abandoned at a llama farm. Reviews said the film was, "lyrical...comedic," but to me the first half was strange and boring. Linas has a van so why is he renting rooms for the night? His dad asks him where is he? and Linas said, "MT...WI, I mean WY." ?? This schlub opened his van door to a complete stranger cuz the stranger wanted to sleep in his van. And then they became best friends. ?
We root for our hero to make it cross country before his charismatic van - old / rusty / chopped to make shorter / slanted / dented / sputtering, goes belly up. The van was a metaphor about life being imperfect, but through persistence and hopefulness, we gain acceptance and open ourselves to other experiences. The van was a symbol of love, sadness and anger that everyone can relate to. The journey represented healing. Debuted at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in a category for innovative, original, independent and low-and-no-budget. Spoiler - the van makes it. Instrumental score - 👍,