Early in my life I had a brief relationship with an American pen pal who lived in Denver. In my letter to her, I mentioned that my first impression of the city came from Kerouac's "On the Road," and she was surprised that I had read Kerouac. The novel itself is not a very compact story, so it is normal for the text of the film to be a bit sporadic.
The color palette is almost meaningless, and the overall look does not have a strong 1940s flavor. Films such as "Once Upon a Time in America" and "The Great Gatsby" are more in place at this point, and the tone can reflect the era.
Although the picture quality of the film is wrong, I think the taste of the story is still ok. Because the original work itself is a work that is more contemporary than literary, it only needs to be broken and confused enough.
A few more words: the lost generation or the beat generation has its own specific connotations in the context of a specific era, but looking at it, in every era, there will also be a considerable number of young people who experience confusion. , hesitant, ultimately disappointed and exhausted. In a sense, Dean is the common denominator of generations of beat young people. Therefore, the book "On the Road" may not be a great and highly literary work, but in any era, it will have its own unique audience, because there will always be young children like Dean who cover up with unruly Fear, use the broken pot to sink the boat as the bewildered, there will always be young people on the road.
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