Road To Nowhere (?)

I don't claim to know if we are on a road to nowhere or not, and anyone who does is either lying or selling something, but David Lynch's perfect little film takes this "life as a road" metaphor and uses it to craft simple yet profound cinematic magic.

Despite the attempts of post-modern writers to present it otherwise, everybody's life is a straight story, and if you can keep going forward, even if you have to struggle along on crutches and a beat up old John Deere tractor, and reach the end having made a few people happier and being at peace with everybody, then perhaps that is reward enough in itself. What comes after that? Who knows? Nobody. Certainly not David Lynch, which is why the film ends with a pan up to the stars.

Most of my favourite films are big budget S.F., fantasy or action films, but sometimes a wordless scene with the gentle smile and watery blue eyes of an old man's face can be more gripping than a hero trapped in the Well Of Souls with 100,000 snakes.

What is the film?

Road To Nowhere (Hey, this video features a John Deere tractor and a pan up to the sky at the end. Spooky!)

Further On Up The Road

Life Is A Highway (Kerchow!)

Follow The Yellow Brick Road

Clearly the "road as life" is a well-worn metaphor!