Dark Comedy : Freeway

[at4101]

Lots of people don't get this movie, but I love " Freeway" and think it is one of Reece Witherspoon's best. It's what made me a life long fan of hers. Has anyone else seen that appreciates the dark humor ?

[Broadwayball]

Freeway was cool, but I can only watch it around certain people. So many people get offended by some of the scenes, but I can think of movies a millions times worse than this one. I guess some people don't think it's a joke to make fun of murder?

[DVDlover]

Freeway was cool, but I can only watch it around certain people. So many people get offended by some of the scenes, but I can think of movies a millions times worse than this one. I guess some people don't think it's a joke to make fun of murder?

It really depends on how the movie depicts the murders, I suppose. Or who stars in the movie.

Heathers, which depicts murders, suicides, and other mayhem, was not a big, big, big hit, but it was good enough to have a following among many viewers who "got" the joke.

[at4101]

It really depends on how the movie depicts the murders, I suppose. Or who stars in the movie.

Heathers, which depicts murders, suicides, and other mayhem, was not a big, big, big hit, but it was good enough to have a following among many viewers who "got" the joke.

Freeway reminds me a bit of Heathers. Yes, it is kind of like that with Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland.

[soysauce]

It really depends on how the movie depicts the murders, I suppose. Or who stars in the movie.

Heathers, which depicts murders, suicides, and other mayhem, was not a big, big, big hit, but it was good enough to have a following among many viewers who "got" the joke.

I happen to like dark comedies. Come on, with snappy dialog and clever plots, those are the funniest of the genre.

Veronica Sawyer: My parents wanted to move me into high school out of the sixth grade, but we decided to chuck the idea because I'd have trouble making friends, blah, blah, blah. Now blah, blah, blah is all I ever do. I use my grand IQ to decide what color lip gloss to wear in the morning and how to hit three keggers before curfew...

[sreeja]

There are movies in America that seem to take the view that killing is not killing, guns are not guns and death is death. This a perfect example. While set in the "real world" so much bad happens with such regularity that you know that you are living in pulp fiction (small case) city.

Indeed the over-the-top regularity of bad things happening leads many to read this as a black comedy. This is surely a mistake as black comedy comes from irony or the unknowing. One human being shooting another (very much wishing them to be dead) is not black comedy.