he genre has its roots in spoken and written tales of epic journeys, such as the Odyssey and the Aeneid. The road film is a standard plot employed by screenwriters. It is a type of bildungsroman, a story in which the hero changes, grows or improves over the course of the story.
The on-the-road plot was used at the birth of American cinema but blossomed in the years after World War II, reflecting a boom in automobile production and the growth of youth culture. Even so, awareness of the "road picture" as a genre came only in the 1960s with Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider.
Paris, Texas (1984)
The ultimate 'road movie'
I think this film can illustrate the notion 'Spaces and Exchanges' by maybe showing how the man (in general) looks for himself in space, in different places then the places where he lives his everyday life, and by loosing the everyday routine. Here, in the opening scene, we can see a man in suit in the desert, apparently lost. It illustrates very well the topic of the man looking for something in his life by travelling from places to places.
Under the Same Moon (2007)
A MOVIE ABOUT EMIGRATION / IMMIGRATION
UNDER THE SAME MOON (LA MISMA LUNA) tells the parallel stories of
nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of
providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S.
while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico. Unexpected
circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own
journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. Along the way, mother and
son face challenges and obstacles but never lose hope that they will one
day be together again.
This movie is about immigration from Mexico to the USA, which is a very common thing in America. Here, the notion is very well illustrated because the journey from a space (Mexico) to another very different space (the USA) is not just a car travel but a life journey for a little boy from Mexico and the exchanges of cultures in the movie (mexican-american) might be very interesting for the notion we study.
