The flashbacks of "Joe" in the movie show that he has an unforgettable story in the small town: having sex with his girlfriend, being handed over to his grandmother as a child, his grandmother's discipline, his girlfriend being gang-raped and he is held Watching from the side...but the place where this story takes place doesn't look like the place where he left the first place to wash the dishes.
The director did not dwell on the story of the town, but just wrote a country child who went to the city and met a poor thief who had been in the city for a long time.
The radio, a very important prop~~ that is the whole source of the cowboy's American dream, and when it is pawned, the dream has been shattered.
use of music. What started out as country music, Dustin Hoffman's beach fantasy part turned ballad, with electronic psychedelics on the party, using a lot of sound montage.
The center of the incident is two, "Joe" is going to do duck, Hoffman wants to go to Miami... but Hoffman's one is more subtle and insignificant, but it is the biggest driving force for the development of the final plot. Joe's desire is direct and powerful, Hoffman starts as one of the obstacles, then becomes a helper, then becomes a partner, and then Joe acts on Hoffman's dream, very interesting power line.
The editing style seemed a bit offbeat in Hollywood, and it was later known that it was a British director. Looking at it now, this kind of editing is still quite different, the key is to match the story picture.
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