Wrong ideology

Rating: 3/10 (12 January 1999)

Some judge that the values the movie transmit are more conservative than counter-cultural or alternative,and that this doesn't prevent it from being a typical Hollywood movie.I think on the contrary that True Romance is quintessentially a Hollywood movie because the values it tries to transmit (the supreme value of the individual against all forms of authority(the police and crime,and on a lighter level,family and traditional moral),life seen as a roller-coaster...)go directly against the traditional American ones.It only serves Hollywood's almost subversive aims to use the pattern of the American Dream,to couple it with the notion of the Hero,and to lend it a woman's voice.