- published: 25 Feb 2012
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Freeway is a 1996 crime film written and directed by Matthew Bright, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Reese Witherspoon and Brooke Shields.
The plot of this film resembles the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood.
Vanessa Lutz is a poor, illiterate teenage girl living in the slums of Los Angeles. After her mother, Ramona, is arrested in a prostitution sting, she runs away with a stolen car from her social worker guardian to stay with her grandmother in Stockton. Along the way, Vanessa stops to see her boyfriend and classmate Chopper Wood, a local gang member to tell him about her excursion and he gives her a gun to sell upon arriving at her destination. Minutes after Vanessa leaves Chopper, he is killed in a drive-by shooting by rival gang members. A little later, Bob Wolverton, a serial killer and rapist known as "the I-5 killer", picks her up after her car breaks down, and promises to take her to her grandmother's house.
Over the long drive, Bob manipulates Vanessa into confessing to him the details of her painfully dysfunctional life, including a prostitute mother and a sexually abusive stepfather. At one point, Vanessa shows Bob a photo she keeps in her wallet of her biological father. (The photo used is actually a picture of mass murderer Richard Speck.) That evening, Bob eventually reveals his true nature and tries to kill Vanessa when she refuses to give in to him. The tables are turned, however, as Vanessa eventually pulls out her gun and shoots him several times before escaping.
Out on the freeway
I saw you wasted
Nobody wants you to fall
Except for me
(Dental plan, marriages, lots of babies, dentogen)
Except for me
(Press hot sex, fuck more and love less)
Call me up daily
Just to remind me
Nobody wants you at all
Except for me
(Charity, charity, everybody look at me)
Except for me
(Wanna be so alike, I'm finishing finishing finishing
finishing)
You're so important that you stay untouched
You start to cry and when we go Pink Dutch
You've always wondered why I don't say much
Well let's see, how well you walk without a crutch
(One two, one, two, one two three four)
I really hate you
Still trying to shake you
Nobody's going to call
Except for me
(No, it's not logical, it's biological)
Except for me
(And if you're willing, it's us I'm killing)
Got a new girlfriend
Is she a godsend
Or is she just methadone?
I'll wait and see
(They say it's darkest just before the crowded light)
If I stay clean
(You gotta fuck somebody over 'fore you get it right)
You're seeing someone now for what that's worth
He's got your love and so they'll have your curse
Freeway of love in a check black hearse
And I really can not think of what that's worth
And I really can not think of what would be worse
Can I think of one more verse....