| Bikes in Movies |
[Sep. 12th, 2007|09:22 am] |
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| [ | music |
| | John Guliak - 7 Stories and 13 Songs | ] |
So watching Monkey Warfare, seeing everyone riding around on bikes.. it made me think about a couple of other movies with the main character's bicycling being prominent. I Heart Huckabees and 40 Year Old Virgin. And in both those movies, though maybe not Monkey Warfare as much, the bicycling doesn't seem to be presented as a positive thing. It seems to me to be saying "Oh look how this guy just can't grow up.. he RIDES A BIKE..." And I resented this bike as shorthand for stunted maturity, and wished that bikes would be presented as awesome and cool, full of freedom and environmentally sound. This all probably stems from me being a non-driving person. I haven't even had a bike in ages.
Oh and here is a strip celebrating my dutch radio station I enjoy far too much! That was a great set of music.
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