In my opinion, the part that is most significant, is when Thelma robs the store. She is finally breaking out of her shell for the first time after being in a controlling relationship, and does something she is in control of for once. She realizes the trouble that Louise is in, and will do anything to help her one true best friend. You can tell that the significance of the roadtrip for Thelma is to finally do something for herself instead of listening to her husband, seen from the very beginning of the movie, but I don't think she does anything to break out of her shell until this point in the movie. After this point, it's clear her loyalty is to Louise and getting them both out of the lives they've been living.
Was the decision they made at the end of the movie the best one? Would they have been able to get out of the trouble they were in? How did everyone feel about the ending?
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I agree with Laura that the most significant scene to me, was when Thelma robbed the store without telling Louise beforehand. Thelma, for most of the movie, has been worried, uptight and doesn't show a carefree side (except for when she is drunk). The fact that she took the terrible situation and turned it into an opportunity to get money and break free and do something on her own for once is so important. She is in a controlling relationship, obviously with a strict schedule and rules she must follow by her husband when she is at home. This was Thelma's way of breaking free and letting herself go. This road trip up to this point is making her grow up in a sense and become more independent. Louise is helping Thelma become her own person and be "self-sufficient". Even with her husband and structured life back home, you can tell that Thelma and Louise don't really have any regrets. They are smiling and laughing and driving carefree trying to escape the police, and their lives back home.
ReplyDeleteEven though Thelma and Louise were trying to escape their lives at home and felt like they couldn't go back, was committing suicide the best ultimate decision? Is COMPLETELY escaping your life really worth it in the end, when you no longer have a life?
I agree with both Laura and Bayley that the most important scene of the movie to me is when Thelma robs the store. Not only does it show that Thelma break out of her former shell, the scene also showed Louise breaking out from the society that has constricted her. Louise tried to put her make-up back on when she saw the two matrons in a shop looking at her through a window. Louise then threw the lipstick out of the car and showed that she does not want to fit in. The road travel in this movie serves as a way for these two women to gradually breaking away from their marriage, suppression from their husband and going toward the desired indepedence and freedom.
ReplyDeleteHow did Thelma come to realization that Louise could have been raped in Texas and thus reacted strongly to the man who attempted to rape Thelma?