Criterion Files #36: Desperation Ignites Cautious Calamity in ‘The Wages of Fear’
Criterion Files By Adam Charles on May 11, 2011 | Comments (2)“Think they pay you to drive? They pay you to be terrified.”
It’s the line that inspires the title. Four men behind the wheel of two trucks without shock absorbers or any special balancing mechanics and driving across unpaved terrain for hundreds of miles with everything in their path from two-ton boulders in the middle of the road to rotten wood acting as their road extension to pivot over a precipice…all while each truck lugs enough nitroglycerine to reduce mountains to piles of pebble. With the prevention of that much destruction contingent on such undisturbed sensitivity a boulder in the middle of the road is the least of their concern to stay alive. In a case like that a large rock is no match for an invisible pothole that need only be inches deep to separate all of you from the rest of you.
Some movie websites serve the consumer. Some serve the industry. At Film School Rejects, we serve at the pleasure of the connoisseur. We provide the best reviews, interviews and features to millions of dedicated movie fans who know what they love and love what they know. Because we, like you, simply love the art of the moving picture. editors@filmschoolrejects.com
Scott Beggs | Email
Rob Hunter | Email
Federated Media
All Rights Reserved © 2013 Reject Media, LLC | Site Credits | Privacy Policy
Design & Development by Face3




































