i saw the movie and i just whanna know why
2007-09-25 17:47:07 · 7 answers · asked by MJ 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
We have it even now: road rage.
It's not the truck that's angry, and the truck isn't possessed. The man behind the wheel is full of resentment and hate. As simple a thing as a car passing him or honking at him is enough to set him off.
I've driven long-distance, and the behavior of some truckers can be very scary, especially when you consider how many of them are going on little sleep or perhaps even pills to help them stay awake. I know what I'm saying because, while saving to go back to college, I had to work as a waitress in restaurants at a couple of truckstops. I've seen the shaky hands as the guys sorted for change; mixed in were bright little pills. I saw that far too many times.
My sister was forced off the road, down an embankment by a truck that swerved into the passing lane as she was passing him. She said that he showed no signs of slowing down to check on her. This also happened to another friend of mine. Fortunately, neither of them sustained injuries.
When I was at the entrance to the parking lot at work one evening, I myself ended up going into a ditch when a semi came at me head-on in the wrong lane! Did he stop? No, he did not.
So, you see, on that long, lonely stretch of highway, it was just the car and the truck, and a truck is so much bigger. Besides, if the guy in the car has a wreck somewhere out there, who's to blame a truckdriver?
Does that make sense? The trucker meant to kill the man if he could~just because he could.
BTW: There was a case awhile back in which several people whose cars had broken down along the highway were killed in hit-and-run accidents. Only one had an eyewitness, a friend who reported that the truck actually went onto the shoulder to hit the young man who was killed! The father, upset that the police could not come up with anyone, went on the road to find the killer~which turned out to be a female truckdriver!
So, you see, it does happen.
I shall close by saying that most of the drivers out there are very good people. I have been helped by them in emergency situations, and I know people who have had them come to their rescue. I believe there are more good drivers than these scary ones. They haven't let those "bad apples" spoil them.
2007-09-25 17:51:42 · answer #1 · answered by MystMoonstruck 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Stephen Kings Maximum Overdrive
2016-05-18 22:56:25 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The driver was just sadistic and homicidal.
"Duel" was one of Steven Spielberg's earliest feature-length films (he had directed prior television work). Made for television when he was in his early 20's; it was so well received that it earned a theatrical release afterward. Soon after came his theatrical releases "The Sugarland Express" and then the movie often credited with being the first "blockbuster" - "Jaws".
2007-09-25 18:45:20 · answer #3 · answered by Lost Panda 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a case of road rage that went too far.
I had read the short story (Duel, Playboy Apr 1971) and forgotten it. Then when I watched the movie on TV (Duel (1971) with Dennis Weaver) I said "I remember this, it was in Playboy".
2007-09-26 16:21:59 · answer #4 · answered by Tin Can Sailor 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because its a truck. Trucks are always in a bad mood. I know this because once I buttshagged a trucker and he was like omg my truck doesnt get this angry
2007-09-25 17:51:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe the trucker was somehow offended that the guy passed him.
2007-09-25 17:51:11 · answer #6 · answered by Helpy Helperton 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because the truck is possesed...
2007-09-25 17:51:03 · answer #7 · answered by Chrys 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋