Great representation of beat literary style
Anyone who has actually read any of the beat narratives, in particular Kerouac and Cassady prose, would agree that the film comes as close to encapsulating the language and overall style onto film as possible.I agree the film does adhere to a certain MTV aesthetic, but whose to say that the aesthetic didn't already exist before it was given that name?One could argue that Neal Cassady himself was one of the more well known ADD characters of late fifties literature, if not all literature, with his penchant for the next free drink of booze, the next broad, jumping from stolen car to stolen car, even ditching his friends (in Mexico in On the Road) if the need arose.While you may have problems with the narrative structure, those of us who are great beat literature enthusiasts recognize that the jump cut style of the narrative already existed and was brought to life in this film in a fantastic manner.score /10
v8injun 28 December 2003
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0423115/35623
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