(sub)Text: On the Lam with “Thelma & Louise” (1991)

Two women—one a straight-laced waitress, the other a naive housewife—leave town for a quiet weekend getaway. But after a deadly encounter with a rapist, the two become unlikely…and then increasingly confident…outlaws. Though a kindly police officer tries to convince the women to turn themselves in, their refusal to surrender to a future scripted by forces more powerful than themselves drives them to a shocking and iconic ending. Is their fate triumphant or tragic? Wes & Erin analyze Ridley Scott’s 1991 film, Thelma & Louise. The post (sub)Text: On the Lam with “Thelma & Louise” (1991) first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.