Young Willem Dafoe almost seems unnatural to me, it's just an oddity and I don't know how to explain it.
I mean I guess everybody has to start out young, but it's still just doesn't seem right.
And speaking of odd things this entire movie is kind of weird.
It's a group of bikers sitting around in some town repairing one of their bikes and reminiscing about this thing in that thing, while interacting with the equally strange townsfolk people who might just take the award for 'the world's most boring country bumpkin'.
Except for the oil tycoon guy who apparently runs the entire place? He keeps extorting money out of some of the local businesses because he controls the pipeline to crude oil. He's just this really deprived bigoted, loser.
He's racist, he's a jerk, he's judgemental, he's rapey and he's incestuous*.
as he implies at some point during the movie after catching his daughter having sex with Willem dafoe's biker character that he himself has done this plenty of times to her.
There's a lot of depravity for a very short \ lack luster movie. The whole thing's just dirty and grungy The ending in this really weird climax of blood and self-destruction.
That's really is to this movie. Willem Dafoe in this girl kind of hookup everybody else is sitting around fixing their bikes and the townsfolk actually conservative and distant at the beginning of the film and then dance around half-naked and get drunk towards the end. It's just a film full of ugly miserable and deprived people.
There's this implied story that the biker kids are heading off to some race down somewhere in Florida and maybe travelling somewhere else afterwards but none of it's really picked up on and it's indicated that the only reason they're still sticking around this town is that Defoe might want to help out this sadly deprived and depressed girl. Which ultimately doesn't happen.
The biker kids really are just punks. No redeeming characteristics, no extremely over-the-top crazy behaviour. There just kind of weird and they're just there.
If you like biker themed movies or just stories about weird people than I'd say give it a look.
*The actress in the film is supposed to be somewhere around 14 to 17, it's not entirely sure. The actress was like 21 so what's not actually disgusting. It's just theoretically disgusting. Either way it's still bad on the father's part regardless of our age.
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