Director David Lynch turns the true story of a geriatric road trip (on a lawnmower) into a gentle parable – and a classic,whether unlikely, American road movieThe Straight Story must be the slowest road movie ever made. And that pace is the point. Somewhere along the way, and our world got itself in a damn hurry. And maybe more than any remarkable American road movie – counter-culture trip (Easy Rider),burnt-rubber hellride (Natural Born Killers), wistful wine elope (Sideways), or feminist freedom trail (Thelma & Louise) – it took an conventional man on a lawnmower to remind us that life's journey should never be rushed.
The first thing in director David Lynch's peculiar,tender film is a huge night sky winking with stars; but those stars died long ago. All we see now are fading memories, their light reaching us after a one-way trip along the cosmic interstate.
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Source: theguardian.com