Thesis: The contrasting mobility of Thelma and Louise's vehicle, in contrast to the essentially stationary or immobile vehicles of the men within the film, allows the main characters to evolve and develop within the film, while simultaneously dismissing the conventions previous placed on them by society and the men they escape from.
Input, again?
Also, I responded to your last comment below.
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Ah! Elizabeth--this is an interesting development based on closer analysis. The version here is even better than the one you posted previously in the last comment (see below), since you get more specific (the vehicles of the men in the film signify their conventional role in the film).
This is a good opportunity to fold back in some of your earlier observations about the film--that the men in the show are one-dimensional, stupid, exaggerations. And you could deal with the contrasts you've found in Hal (since he's a bit more rounded, but also stationary and immobile). So how is the investigator similar/different from JD and Daryl?
Good work! Keep on going!
The relationships between the various characters in the film Thelma and Louise, mainly the two females, J.D., Darryl, the "ass-hole" truck driver, and the investigator Hal Slocumb, and the various vehicles they either drive or are associated with reflect their relative positions within the film and, more universally, society as a whole. Simultaneously, most notably with Thelma and Louise, their relationship to the vehicles that surround them, reflect their evolution throughout the film.
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