nostalgic of late 60 and early 70 american culture and this film be hard to come to grip with . at face value it nothing more than a poorly plot road trip across the u. s. southwest and a two guy and a girl and in a 1950 hotrod and race a guy name g. t. o ( warren oates ) in his yellow muscle car . the film concept be a little like that of the early 1960 tv series route 66. but the approach here be totally different . director monte hellman design two lane blacktop a if it be a docudrama . dialogue be minimal and not can and camera work be unobtrusive with very long camera take and none of the actor wear makeup and non actor play bit part and there be minimal plot contrivance and and so far a i could determine there be no indoor movie set . a such and the film remind me of woodstock ( 1970 ) . that both good and bad . lack of act experience render james taylor and dennis wilson more natural than what could be expect with trained actor . it bad because neither dennis wilson nor james taylor could act and and their entertainment quotient be zilch . in performance and the film thus bear a striking resemblance to zabriskie point ( 1970 ) . for the above reason and a lot of viewer will not like this film . the plot and such a it be and be super slow and the performance be drab . and there be no special effect to function a distraction . so . what you have in two lane blacktop be a 1970 art house film . what it lack in entertainment value the film make up for with it heavy duty philosophical and existential theme . an economy of language wherein nothing in the film be explain and the tacit praise of the prosaic and and the almost stifling trust in the present moment and all speak to the human heart and a the voice of nihilistic romanticism . there be no freedom here and no escape and no change and nor redemption . the landscape horizon never get closer . it the myth of freedom and the embrace of alienation . no matter how far you travel and you never actually arrive . it the journey that matter and on the devil highway . but that life .