my own private Idaho

I chose this film which is directed by Gus Van Sant, in 1991

A short resume of the story

Mike (Phoenix) is a young, lonely and fainting boy who is looking for a mother
he hasn't seen in years. He meets Scott (Reeves), the rebellious son of the
mayor of Portland, and the two of them experience joint adventures until they
go to Italy after finding a trace of Mike's mother, but they fail. There, Scott
meets a girl (Casley), gets married and returns to his father (Trop) and settles
down, while Mike is still alone, dreamy and displaced, and ends up
unconscious on the road.

First of all, I will start with a reference to the name of the movie

From there, I can understand the extent of loneliness of the character of the
story.

And as we heard in the last dialogue of the movie, for him who knows the taste
of roads and has always been on the road, it seems that this road goes
everywhere in the world, and everything starts and ends there just like the
film.

Idaho is a northwestern U.S. state known for its mountainous landscapes with
its specific wilderness. All of which once again show the extent of Mike's
loneliness

The scene that I chose is the one in which it is night. There is nothing at the
Idaho desert. Mike and Scotty have lit a fire and are lying in front of it.

Scotty is a rebel in his family.

So, for him, everything is exciting, he is not afraid of the police and fines, while
others run away when they see these things. it is easy for him to say on a dark
night in the middle of the desert.

How good it feels to be separated from everything.

And would he have said the same thing if he was really alone?
He feels less need for another because his father has recruited everyone to
find him. Mike, on the other hand, doesn't have anyone and he has to look for
his mother or father himself.

One runs away from what he has, and the other goes after what he doesn't
have. But none of this means that Scotty's life is happier or better than Mike's

When he talks about proximity

He clearly states that by talking about closeness he doesn’t talked about being
physically close to someone or getting paid for a sexual relationship ,

In that part, he who doesn’t have a strong character, and although he doesn’t
have much hope of getting a positive answer, but he gathers all his courage
and admits that he has fallen in love.

Then he crumples himself as if he wants to hide and hugs himself, his

loneliness in fact.

I think that Mike's loneliness and rejection is much greater when he is with
Scotty, because he never gets as close as he wants to be with him, and
sometimes it even seems that no matter how much these two are friends and
companions, they are far apart and there is a long distance between them.
Even when they go to Rome together, her loneliness increases when scotty left
him behind.

And as we can see, his fainting was never without reason, it was always when
he feels bad and when he was under nervous pressure.

It's as if he distanced himself from the cruel world of reality and returned to
that lost mother and childhood and nostalgic scenes in his imagination.

His fainting is like a director's cuts, he passes out and when he opens his eyes,
he is in another place and the scene, decor and atmosphere have changed.

There are moments in life when we wish we could go to sleep and when we
open our eyes everything has changed

I don't know if he will open his eyes again?

And as we have seen, at the end he gives up and seems to wish to never taste
any road again.