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Freeway (1996)
No middle ground?
It's astonishing that anyone could see this movie and not come away feeling tarnished by the experience. "Freeway" is a steady stream of sordid, sleazy moments calculated to appeal to the crassest, lowest impulses in human nature. It debases anyone with any involvement in it, including the producer, director, actors and actresses and the audience. We in America need to learn how to spell, pronounce and deeply appreciate a word that isn't used much anymore: "prurience." Movies like this illustrate that, as a nation, we have wildly overcompensated from Puritanism to prurientism.
Walking to the Waterline (1998)
On a higher, but not astral, plain
"Walking" is a higher order of film; it's more true to life and has far more nuance than the usual Hollywood product: no cardboard cut-out characters here or simplistic situations.
More often than not I find Independent films a risky proposition as far as entertainment is concerned--they are usually too artsy, too abstract, and/or just plain boring. But movies like this make one glad there is such a thing as Independent film.
I agree with some of the other reviewers: "Walking" is somewhat slow at first but one soon becomes involved in it; though I liked it a lot I'd give it a 7 or 8: it's easy to get carried away in one's praise and enthusiasm for movies like this because it's such a relief not to be subjected to the same old cliches for the umpteenth time.