you might wonder and what kind of movie be two lane blacktop for . the cover might suggest a road movie and or the premise that it about drag racer go across the country and one in a grey chevy and the other in a gto and would make it an action or chase movie . or have the random pairing of music star dennis wilson ( beach boy ) and james taylor ( the latter in his only film ) and accompany by warren oates and would make it an oddity of movie casting . it be a road movie and but in the same sense that camus the stranger be a movie about murder . one have to hearken back to ebert say of a movie interest not be in what it about but how it about it . this be a film where we keep get sidetrack from the convention and get into a framework that contemplative and quiet a lot of time . indeed the big word for two lane blacktop be alienation . the way it be make itself be alienate ( in a possible tip of the hat to godard with breathless and the cast do not get the script and despite be write by a brilliant novelist name rudy wurlitzer ) and it character alienate to each other even a they never get too aggressive or over active . in fact and it a truly fascinating study of inertness while these character only have to suggest and or barely even that and how theyre outcast . little physical gesture like the way that taylor driver stop to hear love make in a motel room and stand by the door a moment partially frozen and and then sits with knee fold to the chest for what would appear to be quite a while . or just those interaction the driver and mechanic and gto and girl have when they stop to get a bite to eat or get gas or a new part . it a chase movie and therefore and without the chase . this will frustrate most viewer not ready for it and that much should be clear . there be no real tory and and whenever thing look like theyre about to pick up in term of thing happen and like the scene where the gto be pull over by the cop and driver to stop to give an unnecessary lie or when girl make the decision to ride with gto and other thing take it place to suddenly move it into just be about something else entirely . maybe that be and in a sense and why it a pure road movie . be on it with them and it sincerely realistic ( if maybe lean toward the super stoic ) and and it gorgeous to look at almost all of the time . not just the obvious of the car on route 66 and but little thing like the composition at night of the rider in the car and the steadiness that add to the minimalism . from it performance by professional ( oates and stanton walk on ) and non ( everybody else ) and to the sturdy visual obsession with the physical prowess of 60s/70s car and it ultimately a great movie to just watch by yourself and in your home late at night and and sit and really think about what you saw . again and not for everyone . but a an acquire taste and you could do a lot bad .