Review of Gerry

Gerry (2002)
5/10
very quiet movie
19 January 2006
Two guys; both names Gerry, have driven to a wilderness park, to go hiking on its trails. Not far into the trail, they start to go off the track, going where they feel. Soon after they are lost. With no water or food, they walk through a never ending desert that strains their friendship, causing an ultimate dept on ones behalf.

Gerry is one of the most quiet movies I have seen. For the length of the film, there is very sparing dialog. For the moments there are dialog, it is conversations of mundane topics. Situations are drawn out passed there limitations, with scenes that have an never ending sense. While i understand that you can't take this to seriously nor over analyze, but there does come to a point of watch two people endlessly walk become mundane. There is a real distancing with Gerry. You are given a perspective that you are the third traveler, but you never get any interaction with the two Gerrys.

The harsh landscape is beautifully captured. The desert looks so wonderful, it's so breathtaking. It is a world of death that the two Gerrys are walking through.

There is a point to Gerry, but I just don't see it.
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