Motorama
by Barry Shils
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Actor: Harper Flaherty, Jordan Christopher Michael, Martha Quinn, Michael Naegel, Susan TyrrellDirector: Barry Shils
Brand: MICHAEL,JORDAN
Producer: Barry Shils
Producer: Barbara Ligeti
Producer: Donald P. Borchers
Producer: Lauren Graybow
Producer: Rolf Brauneis
Producer: Steven Bratter
Writer: Joseph Minion
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); Cantonese (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-12-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Motorama
Movie Review: Motorama or Motortrauma? Its all in the Metaphysics!
Summary: 5 Stars
Well, here comes another one of my long reviews which I think this movie warrants. So, go get a cup of coffee or your favourite tea, and curl up for some good reading. I'll have to leave some parts out of my review, because Amazon's computers only hold about 9 pages of Microsoft word text and this review ended a little over 10 pages when I was done.
When writing a screen play, you should know that film makers are taught in film school that there are no meaningless details in any screen play. However, when you first view Motorama, you have to either think the writer was on drugs when Joseph Minion wrote it or he was writing from a brilliant premise and knew what he was doing. There is no third choice. The best way to understand this film, in my experience as a scientist and a scholar, is to break it down from a metaphysical standpoint. By metaphysical, I mean scientific or even a supernatural-ethereal perspective. Supernatural does not mean this story is out there in left field with its reality, not when you really know what the Universe is all about, but that there are things about this story; it will take our science to explain. The study of mythology and the religions of the world help too in breaking down the format of this film.
First off, there is a major scientific premise you have to first wrap your mind around when you first view this film and study its format. The format premise in the script is that the boy, Gus, in this film, goes through what is called in scientific circles as a "causality loop" or predestination paradox in quantum physics dealing with time travel. A "what loop" you just asked? Well, you can read up on it more in Wikipedia, if you'd like. Basically it is a phenomena described in forth dimensional mathematics where it is possible to move through time and space from one point, go to an endpoint and wind up back where you started as the end point of your journey while negating all points in between. Put in simpler mathematical terms, it can be written as A = B; B = C; C = D; so A = D; where D becomes A in the end and points B and C never happened. It's another way of describing a sort of circle, but it is a circle that finally negates all the other parts of the circle, once you arrive at the end, as though the circle never existed in the first place. This is the premise this film operates under; as Gus, the boy in this film, reaches the end of the loop in the script or story line, negating his original journey, once it is over; while not forgetting what he learned when he is returned to point A. Want it simpler? A layman's way of putting it, is he gets a second chance at life by the Universe, starting from one specific point in his past, by being sent back into time to try it again. Naturally, causality loops are only theoretical, but they are plausible in the study of time travel.
So, here is a detail of this story called Motorama and its spiritual and/or metaphysical premises, as best as I can communicate it in our language. If you grab onto the movie at the level of thinking I just detailed out, a lot of the down to earth particulars will more easily fall into place and make sense after you watch this film several times; maybe even a dozen times.
Anyway, enters ten year old Gus (Jordan Christopher Michael) at the start of the movie; living near the bizarre State of South Lydon. Is it planet Earth in a parallel Universe? Who knows? Gus is a kind, sweet, loving, courageous and brave boy, who is born to parents who are held together only, through lust, sex and hate: Parents who know nothing about real love. Understand, that throughout this entire film, the only sane person in this film will be this boy; Gus. All adults are seen as either stupid, passive, delusional or psychotic: More correctly; the adults who pursue money are the true sinners of Gus's world the writer would have us understand, and are cruel; but not the boy Gus who is simply trying to survive it all. The play of good vs. evil in this film is interesting to, say the least. That message is brought out early in the story when Gus pulls up to a gas station, early in the story, where he meets Phil, the station attendant, (John Diehl); for the first time. You find throughout the film that the law is always Gus's true friend represented by the police officer in the story, even though Gus fears the law. All the dead things the world has to offer, including material wealth, are Gus's enemy.
Gus goes through three cleansings in this film that make him more divine through each cleansing, as he wises up to how the real world really is, with all its hypocrisy, evil and cruelties. These cleansings are symbolized by the appearance of water in the movie each time Gus must wash himself, as he becomes more whole in his understanding of the world. Fire and water always are symbolic of cleansing in mythology or dream language too, which is why it is easy to first think this whole thing is a dream, when its not.
By the way, the Mustang in this film that Gus drives is not what I would call "a cherry red" in color, like some of the other reviewers describe it. It's more an orange/red color. Cherry would be a much deeper red than the color used on Gus's Mustang. Its interesting this color is used, because in civilized culture, such a color screams "harlot" and says something about the journey Gus is about to embark on, as life "rapes" this kid of his innocence while he travels through Hell and back in his own heroes journey to find true freedom in a world that is truly insane, but wears masks to hide its insanity.
From the beginning we know Gus is divine, as evidenced by his nearly golden blonde hair and his kindness toward others in his journey, as well as toward life in his efforts to survive a hellish path he has been put on. Someone on one of the IMDB chat boards called him a "punk" in this film. No doubt that person never got even this far in understanding the metaphysics behind this story's premise. Gus is no punk, but frankly a saint going through an incredible journey no ten year old should have to face. We live in too sanguine a culture these days in the developed countries, with everyone too protected in their lives, who write some of these reviews I've noted over the years. You should try visiting some orphanages to see the tougher side of life kids have to face, not to mention how children were treated a hundred or more years ago, as they tried to survive in this world without real love or when they lost their real parents.
I don't see it an accident that Jordan Christopher Michael was chosen for this role. I think the Universe and casting director (Linda Francis) picked this boy to play this role, because his heavenly, beautiful male looks play a heavy role in the message behind the metaphysics and mythological side of this film in my view and what defines a divine nature vs. total depravity in a person. Jordan carried his character extremely well in this movie. Its clear Jordan was a bright kid and easy to direct. I was mesmerized watching this boy's acting. He should be highly praised for pulling off such a character on screen, having been given such a challenging role to play in a motion picture film. For a ten year old boy to carry an entire film like this, takes real talent and great direction on the part of the director (Barry Shils)
What Gus puts up with, would take any ten year old great courage and bravery to go through in today's world. If you start with all this in mind, you'll do well to get into the head of the writer. A number of scenes appear comical in content through this film and I think people tend to respond this way, because they can not see the horror this boy is going through, as he tries to survive his journey through hell on Earth, while having the veil of innocence taken away that keeps most ten year olds from seeing the way the world truly is; full of idiots, mindless gnomes, liars of every kind and cruelty un-imaginable.
After Gus takes his parent's Mustang, having made leg extensions for his feet to reach the gas peddle and brake peddle, his first stop is at a place called the "Wagon Wheel". The very name Wagon WHEEL is our first clue Gus is about to enter into a causality loop. He meets a sleazy bunch of characters (Harper Flaherty, Susan Tyrrell, John Laughlan and Kurt Bryant). It is here where Gus first gets his first disgusting taste of the world and the cruelty people have toward each other through total indifference, because they are afraid of anyone outside their private orbit of friends. People form "clicks", because it makes them feel comfortable and in control of the world around them, when in truth, none of us are in control of much of anything that happens in our lives, if we were to truly take a look at our lives at any given moment.
Gus does not stay at this place, after ordering a coffee; and is quickly back into his Mustang, down the road looking for his future. It is at this time, he pulls off the road and goes through his first spiritual cleansing, symbolized by a stream where he washes his face. Prior to this scene, two of the men in the Wagon Wheel throw an old man into the river. This is where we are told the final scene in the loop, before it happens in the Chimera tower at the end where Gus is thrown through the mylar window to his supposed death. The man's head is wounded pouring blood into the stream. The stream is full of old rusting parts, symbolic of death and decay. Gus is "baptized" into the pathway of blood, hell or death he must travel through first, before he sees the truth about the world and himself in the world, as far as what is truly important in life. Too bad parents like to shield their children from movies like this, because life is all a far cry from being Disneyland in the end.
Once back into his Mustang, he sees his first MOTORAMA sign and decides his wealth, as well as a good future, lies in his playing the game to make his fortune, providing he fills his tank every $5 fill to get Motorama cards. He fails to see from the get go that even once he gets all eight cards, it does not mean he is an instant winner, but what he learns in the end makes for an ending with quite a twist in it and this is where the causality loop premise enters the film at the end of the story which you don't see coming. This is why some people put in their reviews that they thought the whole thing was a dream, but it isn't; because Phil, at the end of the story, is not made whole from his contact with the white truck of death. However, Gus is made whole. So we are dealing with a form of time travel in this story, not a dream, if all the parts are to make sense. This film should have been marketed as a science fiction film once you see this. Keep this in mind when you watch this film. Everything is really happening to Gus, in other words, and this is no dream.
His first stop is at a gas station run by a sweetheart of a fellow named Phil (John Diehl). Phil represents heaven on earth and Gus is given the chance to work at the gas station, stop his pursuit of Motorama and work at the station where he will have a good life and be loved which he can't see yet. This is the preverbal "fork in the road" for Gus's spiritual path. The sign over the gas pumps, which read "Be-Full Filled", states it all with what the world is all about, before Gus learns to let go of the world for all the emptiness it has to offer as a fulfilment. I interpret the sign to mean that from that point on in the road where the gas station is located, all is emptiness and when you've had your fill of all the emptiness life has to offer, only then can you receive the light of the Universe and be fully satisfied with what God originally handed you. Phil represents Gus's salvation and redemption in the end, but Gus does not see this right away either. The law officer, named Jerry Perkins, also represents Gus's salvation in the film, played by Robert Picardo. This is the lesson Gus is about to learn.
Phil also has this kite flying, which he wants God to see, so he goes to heaven when he dies. However, as Gus leaves the station in his Mustang, he releases the kite to go down the road ahead of him, forcing Phil to run to save his kite, so his message reaches God. Instead, Phil runs into a white truck coming down the road out of no where, which puts Phil into a full body cast we see at the end of the movie. This truck appears three times in this film and each time it appears, it comes as the "angel of death" in the film to kill whoever is travelling this roadway to hell and emptiness.
The number three is common throughout the Universe. This entire Universe we live in is based on the number three in every way and three is always the number of divine calling, either in death or mastery of ascent. You see this in all the religions of the world, as well as mythology. The fact that Gus must wash himself three times in the story, symbolizes his spiritual cleansing of first, his mind, then heart, then body, as he awakens at the soul level to see things the way they really are and go beyond all the masks people wear to cover up their evil hearts. Trust me, not one adult in this movie, except the gas station attendants and the police officer, has a good heart as the story unfolds. You learn to hate everyone who is cruel to Gus throughout the film.
The "death truck", which is what I like to call it, is also symbolic of three near death encounters Gus must go through, as he is reborn through each near death encounter; where the last death out of the Chimera tower might count as a forth death, it is really just a looping back into the first cleansing Gus receives where Gus first started his journey, which ends the causality loop and a rebirth and resurrection for Gus in the end. Just buy the DVD. Read my review again and it will all make great sense.
We learn the roadway Gus is on is indeed the roadway to hell, as soon as Gus leaves the gas station where he met Phil; for we hear the song "highway to hell" playing on his car radio to help get that point across. As he begins his journey, we see a sign on the side of the road that says "Welcome to South Lydon - The Lonesome State". While I'm not sure what South Lydon is suppose to mean, I think all of us can identify with the words "lonesome" which pretty well sums up Gus's journey in a nutshell. There are three other States we see on the way. Welcome to Tristana - the Green State: Welcome to Bergen - the Long State and Welcome to Essex - the Last State. We are eventually shown a map of this world Gus lives in and also learn there is a State called Mercer. None of this exists on the current Earth we live in I might add. If this is on another planet or parallel Universe, it's nice to see they like the Ford Mustang. I always loved that particular model myself.
From here on, things only get worse for Gus in his quest for the wealth of the world to support him, given how intolerable his parents were to live with. As he leaves the gas station, he goes through these different "states of ascended consciousness" which are actually different states of transformation for Gus, as his life's journey teaches him the divine path through abject humiliation and deficiency of every kind. This is what the physical States mean in the movie that he keeps passing through. Gus is even told by Phil that their current life is not really important. Even the money in Phil's pocket, which he shows to Gus and throws away, is meaningless, but Gus doesn't get the message right away that his pursuit after Motorama is not the answer to his happiness. So we see in Phil all that is pure and good in the world at the spiritual level on the Earth. Phil represents the human attached to no material possessions which brings perfect peace. The same message was taught in "Brother Sun, Sister Moon"; the story of St. Francis of Assisi. Even the gas station Phil operates which is new and fresh looking, sits in the middle of no where, serving as a reminder of how people do not see pure gold, as something you find in the unlikely of places when it comes to real truth.
In fact, in all the great literary stories; you find that all true wisdom and useful knowledge is not found in the grand office buildings of life, but in the caves and cubby holes of life. This has been my real experience with the world also, even as a scholar, who has lived as long as I have dealing with this world. This is where the true sages are to be found, because their insight into absolute truth is something the world puts no monetary value on. As such these sages and wise men must seek out modest accommodations to keep a roof over their head. This is the main reason why you don't find them in expensive office buildings. Only liars and cheats are usually found in expensive office buildings, because these people cheat their victims out of their money, while delivering a cover up to the real truth in their promises. This is what Gus will learn in the end when the story fully plays out. We as the audience get to share in his lessons, as the story unfolds. It all makes for great story telling I might add.
Gus's next stop is at a Motel with a deranged Motel manager (Jack Nance) who loves to kill squirrels. The significance of the squirrels is not made clear to me in this movie, but the deranged manager tells the audience Gus has embarked into the world of the insane. All masks are removed off of all adults in this movie, so you can see their true nature, unlike the way people might act toward you in life. When the masks are removed, we learn underneath each mask, which people wear in life, are depraved, crazed people who grew to be adults and who have all sorts of phobias and hatred in them or a form of abject darkness. Gus learns fast that the entire world is as crazy as his parents, full of sin and wickedness of every kind, but he keeps his focus on his dream goal and that is to become rich through Motorama, so he can find his heaven on earth; so to speak. In fact, once in his hotel room, Gus sees himself in the hotel room mirror in a tweed suit with a cigar and his hair slicked back. It is here where he becomes an adult in his thinking and starts to play the world's game, realizing his goal will not be easy to achieve.
He leaves the Motel and travels the road where he stops at a scenic view where a young couple has sex in the back seat of his car. (Cynthia King) This scene really has no significance to me quite frankly. However, in film schools, you are taught that all successful films must have focus on power, money and sex in them, so maybe Joseph Minion was simply taking liberty to add the sex part to the story equation, given he had already covered the power and money issue quite well. But since there are suppose to be no meaningless details in any screenplay, there may be a meaning I'm missing in my study of this film. Hard to tell: Otherwise this part could have been left out of the story in my opinion.
Next, one of Gus's tires blows in need of repair or replacement. He is forced to stop at a gas station to get a replacement tire by two gas station owners. (Garrett Morris and Michael J. Pollard) Along the way the officer appears again (Robert Picardo) to check up on Gus to make sure he is alright. Always the police officer, who represents the law is kind to Gus and is Gus's friend. I sense some influence from Alfred Hitchcock films here, because Hitchcock always hated policemen, since he was a boy; when you read up on his work. So, Hitchcock made officers to be somewhat creepy in his films, as a result. Hitchcock didn't care too much for the world system and its ills, including the establishment, seeing it all as un-natural and something that never should have been created. So you get a sense of that with the police officer in this film I've noted.
Gus then needs more money, so he pulls into a cafeteria type eatery where he buys a false nose and moustache out of a machine. He wears it on his face and then enters the main kitchen, saying he is there to do a surprise inspection. It's humorous, but a bit creepy that everyone can not see he is only a ten year old boy telling them what to do. He manages to con $30 off the chief (Paul Willson) for his sloppy kitchen and pays a bus boy (Flea) to help get him a gas can and hose to siphon gas from an elder couples car (Sandy Baron and Mary Woronov) to put into Gus's car. But he gets caught by the couple and is whacked by the owner of the car (Sandy Baron) who badly damages Gus's left eye.
The metaphysics behind this part of the script suggests Gus is starting to lose sight of what is truly important in life, when he loses his one eye. Even when the doctor comes (Vince Edwards), that the couple calls, to see what can be done about Gus's eye, the owner of the car (Sandy Baron) says "Loss builds character" which drives the message more home what Gus is to learn about life and the things he took for granted, like the health of his body.
It is at this time Gus has a dream of being on a beach with a beautiful girl calling to him (Drew Barrymore) telling him he has not won Motorama yet. Then Gus sees in his dream that he has sand crabs crawling all over his feet, which creeps him out while he screams himself awake. Feet always represent the spiritual pathway in dreams, if we go by what Edgar Casey says about the symbol of feet, even in dreams. So to have crabs at your feet in a dream means your spiritual pathway is blocked by something ugly that needs to be taken out of the path in order for true progress to be made. The couple who had kidnapped Gus then cover his mouth with lipstick while putting a patch over his damaged left eye, but he is released in the morning, after suffering the abuse and humiliation this couple put him through. It is here where Gus learns all things have a price attached to them in life. At this point, Gus goes through a second spiritual cleansing, symbolized by an old tractor wheel full of water. The tractor wheel is a revelation to all of us that Gus is in a causality loop. Washing his face to get the lipstick off and clean his badly beaten left eye is the symbol of the cleansing of his heart and opening of his inner spiritual vision. The first cleansing was just his face, symbolic of the cleansing of his mind. A third cleansing is yet to come.
Gus's next stop is at a Beer Joint where he meets Vern (Meat Loaf), who is arm wrestling for dollars. Gus is forced into an impossible arm wrestle when the police officer enters the beer joint and Gus must put up some kind of smoke screen to make sure the officer doesn't discover him there. But his cleverness gets him into trouble with the bikers who want to collect on his lost rounds of arm wrestling. Gus lets them know he is playing Motorama and needs the missing letters TORA, which the bikers are glad to give Gus by giving Gus a major tattooing on his right arm with those letters and the mark of the serpent on his forearm.
You should know that usually the sign of the serpent in most of mythology, other than Christian, is a sign that the hero on his journey is about to consume the power of the serpent after mastering it in battle. In Christian culture, the serpent is the sign of the Devil. Still, I think my first definition applies in this film, not the Christian version.
So Gus is now minus one eye, with the arm sleeve of his running parka torn where his arm has been marked with the serpent, as a sign he is overcoming the evil in his journey on the ascended masters path to divinity. I could not help but think of the movie "Tora, Tora, Tora" when Gus is left with the word "TORA" on his right arm or the cry matadors make when they are fighting a bull in a bull ring to taunt the bull. Such is the cry of any warrior who has gone into battle to save his life or his homeland, if you were born in Asia or Spain. All signs point to Gus being a warrior going through the heart of hell in the story which I think the writing is bringing forth rather well; when you put all the symbols together.
Vern (Meat Loaf) even refers to Gus as an "old pirate", not seeing he is addressing a 10 year old boy, but Gus is really not a pirate in this story, but a brave hero. These remarks also show how people in the world judge only the surface value of each person they see and not the depth of a person they meet. Gus's hair keeps changing along the way, showing he is aging, as the story progresses. You should know that accelerated aging of the body related to exposure to conditions of chronic fear can really happen in any animal, especially man. Gus's loss of his hair and change in hair color, with it going white at the end of the film, is a real medical phenomenon. So Gus is losing his youth and innocence fast through this nightmare of a life he is experiencing.
Next Gus approaches a picnic area where he plays a few games of horse shoes with a man (Dick Miller) to win some gas money, which he successfully does. I remember first seeing Dick Miller in the Disney movie Explorers. I loved that film except for its ending. Anyway, this scene between the woman and her son (Sandy Williams and Jacob Kenner) where her son points to Gus saying Gus is a man with only one eye, proves I'm understanding what is happening to Gus when Gus responds "That's alright. I use to be the same way!" meaning Gus use to be innocent with full physical eyesight like the boy with his mother. It is here we learn Gus is really waking up to what the world really is all about where the full loss of his innocence is complete. While he has lost his one physical eye, his spiritual eyesight is coming to bear, as he sees the world the way it really is in absolute truth and not what Gus might have believed at first. Gus sees the world is a pig sty full of evil people who are all crazy. Still this is only true, if you travel the highway to hell, like the song said earlier in the story when Gus left Phil at the gas station. After Gus wins $100 from the guy he plays horse shoes with, he's back on the road again searching out his fortune by collecting Motorama cards.
Gus finally passes through a tunnel that says "Entering Essex: The Last State". As Gus exits the tunnel, he sees the total abject depravity of the world. I had to "stop and go" my DVD player to see the scenes being played out at this point, given they go by so fast and here is what I saw: A drug attic in his living room shooting up; a hooker catching a business man; a homeless man; a battered housewife; shooting of the Pope, symbolic of religious hatred; and racial discrimination represented by the burning of a black man by the KKK. I'm sure, if the film makers could have kept the time down in the final cut of the film, they would have added more scenes like this to show the atrocities of the world to make a more full plate of the world's horrors Gus must see at this point in his life's journey. Gus drives slowly through this area, as he watches all the worlds' best atrocities at work. Given he has only one eye to see with, he no longer sees duality in the symbolism of his vision, but sees with only one eye of absolute truth.
It is here where he stops at a Motel and washes for the third time in a shower. This time he is washing his whole body, completing his full divine transformation. It is here where he sees what all the sins of the world are about and where they lead. This is the place where wisdom is now being birthed into Gus, but has not fully bloomed yet. Gus is about to meet his redemption; symbolized by the missing "R" he still needs to complete his Motorama card deck he has been collecting.
Finally, he enters the city where the Motorama corporate officers work at and his last gas stop; hoping for the final "R" needed to complete his journey. At this point the white truck appears again, nearly killing him, but he swerves his beautiful Mustang car out of the way. Another car has already crashed. It is here Gus meets his older self. This older self is ending another causality loop inside the loop Gus is already travelling in that we, as the audience, don't know about just yet. We learn the other car has an old man (Charles Tyner) in it that has been playing Motorama all his life and is also looking for the final "R" needed to complete his deck of cards. The old man dies while giving a warning to Gus the "R" is just up the road. When Gus gets to his final gas station, he washes his hands of the blood from the old man and sees in the mirror where he is washing up, that he is the old man when he looks at his reflection. He still looks the same as his ten year old body which has aged, when he walks away from the mirror. His hair has gone grey and white, even though he is still only 10 years old.
There is only one big red button at this last station that sounds off a siren to call for service. Once pushed, only the attendant Elmer (Irwin Keyes), a hunchback, can turn off the siren. When the attendant appears, we find he is not too bright and acts more like a mindless Gnome. Gus simply asks for $5 of gas again and gets one Motorama card. To his surprise he learns it's the final card he needs to fulfil his deck of eight M-O-T-O-R-A-M-A cards.
From here he goes to the Chimera corporate headquarters, who has sponsored the contest, thinking he has won, only to find out he is now only "eligible" to win the grand prize of $500 million dollars and that he has not won anything yet. Hurt and angry, he takes the elevators to the floor of this very tall skyscraper to talk to Miss Lawton (Robin Duke) who tells him all of this on the lobby phone in the corporate offices. Prior to his talk with this secretary Miss Lawton, he meets the receptionist (Allyce Beasley). I remember Beasley playing the receptionist in the old television series Moonlighting which started a yet to be famous Bruce Willis back in my youth in my early twenties. When he learns that Miss Lawton is only a secretary, he insists on seeing the "head honcho" in charge of Motorama. Instead both Miss Lawton and a security guard (Marvin Elkins) take away his cards and hurl Gus out through the mylar windows of the high rise, 102 stories up, where it appears Gus falls to his death. During his fall, his tattoo disappears off his right arm and his arm sleeve is returned to normal. His hair returns to its normal color and his eye is made whole while his eye patch flies off his head. When he lands at the bottom, where there is a water pool at the bottom of the tower, Gus finds himself back at the first stopping place in the movie where he first washed his face. The causality loop is complete. Gus has all the wisdom now to tell him not to take the Motorama road when he sees the Motorama sign, through this second chance at real life and real love he has just been given by the Universe.
From here, he throws away his foot extensions he used to drive the Mustang and leaves the Mustang abandoned, so his cruel parents will never find him. As he hitchhikes for a ride, he is picked up by the kindly police officer (Robert Picardo), who is off duty in a station wagon, asking where Gus would like to go. Gus says doesn't know. So, the officer takes him to the gas station where Phil is in a full body cast, like I said at the beginning of this review. Since the causality loop begins before the gas station scene with Phil, it is hard to understand why Phil's body is not whole as well. I think Joseph Minion was just trying to reinforce the idea that all of this actually did happen to Gus and was no dream. Still, Phil's body should be whole too to make the science correct.
Having been offered the job at the gas station in the beginning of the film, Gus takes the job, finally realizing that he can only find true happiness among those who are alive, kind and caring like Phil, not the road to material riches which is full of death and deceit.
The next morning, Gus fills the tank of a car belonging to a man who has just won a million dollars at a local casino (Shelley Berman). This man teases Gus with the money, but Gus is not interested. As the new millionaire leaves the station to travel down the road that leads to hell, the white truck appears for the third time taking this man's life to end his evil attitude. The movie ends with Gus and Phil together at the place where all truth begins and so ends the movie. (Rev 3d)
Summary of Motorama
No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 31-AUG-2004
Media Type: DVD
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